Alexander pronunciation?

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Similar to the Frances thread. How would you pronounce Alexander? Alex-ARN-der or Alex-AN-der?

Alex-an-der.

Alex-an-der, but surely this will just be a north(ish) south(ish) short 'a' /long 'a' difference?

I'd say it with an "AN" sound, but agree it's just accent surely?

Alex-ARN-der. I live in the south and it's the only pronunciation of it I've heard round here! I too would assume there's regional variation.

Arn

Live in Yorkshire and would say Alex-AN-der

ARN. I'm in the south too

Down south so arn

Arn. Home counties.

I would say either - I have lived in North, South and Wales so used to both and I find whether I use long vowel or short vowel sound depends on who I'm with, but sometimes I will switch even in the same conversation.

I'm Scottish so I'd use the AN rather than ARN.

Alexander with no R in the middle as there is no R in the middle

I pronounce our Alexander's name as Alex :-) (unless he's in trouble....)

AN

But I'm Scottish and we generally don't add in R's like a lot of English accents do.

AN with a short 'A', as in 'cat'.

Not 'AH' as in 'far'.

Alex - ahn -der. Long a. But really it's just a regional accent thing, rather than a correct pronunciation thing.

Eh? Nobody's talking about adding an actual 'R' sound, surely?

It's long vs short 'a'.

My Alexander is from the home counties and is pronounced with the not flat 'ar' sound in the middle. I like it either way though. He's usually just Alex though, as much as I love the full version of the name!

Pissed - yes there's no 'R' in the middle but the majority of the population (at a guess) use the pronunciation of 'A' the southern way, so we must be right...

Short A sound as it's the only A sound my accent has.

Just depends on your accent surely? My brother is Alexander - mum says ARN (southern), dad says AN (Scottish) - it's still the same name.

Alex-ARN-der.

London.

ARN.

East Anglia

Arn. Also East Anglia

Alex-ARN-der, I've never heard it pronounced any other way!

AlexANder for me in Scotland. My vair posh friend has a son called AlexAHNder.