[kubanczyk]

> If you expect everyone in your country to accurately produce a sound they've never heard, you're in for some disappointment.

It's Polish and we have all sorts of sounds, this and much worse. The atrocious story is that we even have an earlier Persian-sourced word "szach" which we pronounce sensibly as <<shakh>>. But at some point we've got a duplicate via English, pronounced <<sheik>> (written "szejk"). Ouch...