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I guess it could be done, but you'd have the devil's own time getting people to understand your pronunciation, especially if you don't have an exotic accent that would 'justify" it.
Personally I think it'sa little bit pretentious when people take names and decide they want to say them differently than they're meant to be pronounced. I have a friend in her forties, named Melissa, whose mother wanted her name pronounced Ma-Lees-a, and to this very day, her mother and sisteers are the only people who say her name this way. The rest of the world just says Ma-Liss-a like usual. Her mother gave up around first grade on getting anybody else to say the name her way.