Zagorath

mercedes

In English’s defence, it’s not an English word. It’s a German company named after a Spanish name. And at least to my ear, the Spanish and German pronunciations also have 3 different Es. One helpful Redditor also provided an IPA guide to the German pronunciation, agreeing with my ears:

mɛrˈtseːdɛs

The “e” in the middle is long and stressed.

Edit: I would also say, that most of the times it is even pronounced like this:

məˈtseːdɛs

But I can’t even begin to justify the letter c sounding like /s/, /k/, and /ʃ/.

The mod later edited their comment:

EDIT: as funny as it is to imagine that I literally removed the post because it spoiled a tournament result, I actually didn’t; another mod removed it (for being low-effort). In light of this post’s popularity I’ll re-approve it.

Reddit link.

At some point OP deleted the post anyway. Dunno if it was in response to their treatment by mods, or unrelated to that.