I didn't know that.
My dad had an Irish colleague whose surname was Finucane, pronounce FiNOOken. When they went to an international conference, he noticed that the Dutch people sniggered (very politely and almost imperceptibly). It turned out that a Dutch word for "f*ck" is pronounced rather similarly.
I remember the office block where I used to work had a Tannoy system in the early days, to call people to take an outside call if they were away from their desks. One guy (I think he was German) had the surname Puke - pronounced POOka. The inevitable happened one day: a new woman on the Tannoy was handed a note "Will Mr Puke please phone 1234" without being briefed about the name. And she got a fit of the giggles: "Will Mr, er..., Mr PYOOK? (is that really his name?). Will Mr PYOOK..." [uncontrollable giggling, followed by very noisy mike-drop].
I wonder if the pronunciation "FYOOsha" for Fuchsia is confined to English-speaking countries or whether it is now standard in Germany as well, where it is derived from Fuchs = Fox. I suppose it's undergone a similar reversal of letters as Dachshund (often pronounced Daschund in the UK), though the correct German pronunciation (it means badger-dog) is starting to prevail nowadays.