How's That Chee - Lay Mon?

Don't you find it annoying when you hear some gringo say 'Chill-lay', when they mean that long, skinny country on the west coast of South America?  I do.

I mean, back in the good old days everyone pronounced Chile just like that homographic kidney bean, onion, tomato and chile powdered stew, long simmered, often with ground or chunky beef, that you ate hot on a cold winter day and were glad to have it.  Or in the summer with a cold beer at a chile cook off.