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When I was in high school, in English class, we read "The Matchmaker" by Thornton Wilder. Then we were broken up in groups and had to do some kind of project about it. My group chose to dramatize a scene. There is a character named Malachi in "The Matchmaker" who featured in the scene, and none of us had seen this name before, so we naturally didn't know how to pronounce it. Keep in mind this was before the internet, when it wasn't all that easy to look up something like that.

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We said, "me-LATCH-ee." So we had a student teacher that semester who took herself way too seriously. She watched our little skit with a bitchy look on her face, and when it was over all she had to say, in a tone which made it clear that she thought us the worst kind of imbeciles, was that the name is pronounced "MAL-e-kie"

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So whenever I hear the name all I can think of is that incident and so the name is somewhat comical to me.

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Oh, so ever since then, I've pronounced it MAL-e-kie.