It would make me cringe asf but similarly I would remember policing how people use words to uphold some „purity“ of language is mostly BS and your time can be spent in much better ways.
I’ve never heard anybody pronounce it that way, and since we regularly tell children to “sound it out” to spell things I am going to go ahead and say no to adding letters personally.
It is commonly pronounced both ways in the US, imo both pronunciations are correct.
As an American if someone said “nitch” out loud I would secretly die inside and then do my best to remember this:
It would make me cringe asf but similarly I would remember policing how people use words to uphold some „purity“ of language is mostly BS and your time can be spent in much better ways.
I’ve never heard anybody pronounce it that way, and since we regularly tell children to “sound it out” to spell things I am going to go ahead and say no to adding letters personally.