I agree. “Par-a-pha-nay-lee-a” sounds more standard to my ears.
But then I’m out of step with the (I think) majority of Americans, who say “pher-TOG-ruff-ee” and “pher-TOG-ruff-er”. Which I hate, but which seems near-universal.
(These same people do say “PHOH-tah-graph” not “PHER-tah-graph.” Something to do with the accented syllable, I suppose.)
Totally agree. I (used to) in an area of mathematics called topos theory and there is a disagreement over the plural of topos. At first the pretentious among us tried topi. Finally they discovered that the correct Greek plural is topoi. My argument is that if you use the Greek plural then you should really use all the correct cases and I wrote a paper in which the preprint (but not the published version) did use the correct case for each usage. But I always use the plural toposes.
Pair-a-pha-nail-ya, for me
Pair-uh-fer-neelia for me.
I just call it “my stuff”.
Well, Peoples Jewellers advertises itself as “Canada’s #1 Diamond Store”, but Melanie Auld, who has boutiques in Toronto and Vancouver, proclaims herself a “lover of jewelry”.
“Behold!”
I don’t believe either one of you.
You, I believe. 
I guess I’m the only one who has a problem with personnel or is that personell? I know, I know. Two n’s.
I used to have this problem. Now I remember that a sheriff was originally a shire reeve, reeve being some kind of administrator and shire being something like a county. And shire only has one r.
The v => f change is fairly common with f being essentially an unvoiced v sound. I suspect the double f at the end was originally to mark the i as a short vowel. That was a common way scribes market short vowels when the writing of English started.
Ah, so two r’s: one from “shire” and one from “reeve.” Helpful!
It should be spelled the way Tolkien spells it: “shirriff”. It’s easy to remember: two R’s, two F’s and two I’s.
There’s no L in sheriff, much less two.
(I would kill to get serif fonts back in common use. I never know if an article is about Artificial Intelligence or Weird Al.)