I rather enjoy it; wouldn't use it because I think it's language-specific, but I like to see it in use.
That said, I taught a girl once whose name was Leizel. So I pronounced it LIETs'l and she 'corrected' me: it was LEEz'l. Luckily for her, the kids could choose to study French,
German or Latin for the first two years at high school and she had picked French!