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In the BBC news, I always hear the news readers pronouncing 'Malaysia' as 'Malayciya'.I thought it should be pronounced as 'Malayshia'.

Do we need to pronounce all the words ending in 'sia' as 'shia'?
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I hear two:
zeeuh
shuh
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Ohhh...really?But isn't the proper way of pronouncing it is 'Malayshia'?
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