Mercedes is a spanish female Name, so you should pronounce it
Marr tha dess

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Problem is there is no e in english, because e is pronounced as ee, if shorter.
In german it's more like Merrts (then long 'e' pronounced like in Dress) dess, but no weight on the last dess, more like des, but with german e, not english e.
Not mersaydees, this is very bad in all languages
I hope to have confused everybody by now