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I could change the T in Katy, but I'd have to change my accent entirely. That's a lot to ask someone to do in the middle of a conversation. There's pronunciation preferences, and then there's accent preferences. If you don't like the way a name is pronounced in a certain accent, there's not much you can do about it unless you move. There are plenty of foreign names I only like pronounced with a different lingual accent, like Lena for example. It's not LENN-a, it's not LEE-na, and it's not LAY-na. It's a slightly different vowel sound that we don't really have in the American accent. For Americans to pronounce it that way, they'd need to completely reconfigure the muscles in their mouth in the middle of conversation. Even Etta I only like in the British pronunciation. I can't use it unfortunately because here I'm worried people here will think it's Edda, since they are often pronounced exactly alike.