A student of mine is very annoyed at the pronunciation difference between "height" and "weight." She was reading something about "height and weight," pronounced the "eight" in "height" like the word "eight," I gently corrected her, and then, of course, she read "weight" and pronounced it "white."
A very valid annoyance! (As someone with the surname Heighton, pronounced pretty much like 'heighten' but mispronounced by many as Hayton, I am very familiar with this particular issue)
People have changed the spellings of their surnames over that kind of issue. (Not not not suggesting you should). It was years before I realized that an acquaintance with the surname "Win" had changed it from "Nguyen."