Machinal--approximate pronunciation is a Frenchified "MASH-een-all," per the folks at Roundabout--was not without antecedents.
Here, they are written in Arabic numerals, Greek letters, and the approximate English pronunciation.
One does not, for instance, perform the morally blameworthy action of speaking insultingly to an elder just by making sounds that approximate to the pronunciation of profanities in the presence of an elder; parrots and prelinguistic children can do as much.
The most accurate way of writing Japanese words was by using Chinese characters not for their meanings but for their phonetic values, giving each character a pronunciation approximating that used by the Chinese themselves.
Rijndael (whose creators suggest pronunciations approximating "Rhine doll") does not become a new standard overnight.
The name "Hong Kong" is an approximate phonetic rendering of the pronunciation of the spoken Cantonese or Hakka name, meaning "Fragrant Harbour".
Confident and approachable – yes, in person, Manville is certainly that, and the vowels fairly approximate to Radio 4-style Received Pronunciation.
In modern pronunciation of Sanskrit, the distinction between palatal ś and retroflex ṣ is generally not observed with a sound approximating for both except in very careful pronunciation taught in some areas such as Maharashtra.
(Your pronunciation is correct).
