Aaron - v - Arron

[2perkins]

This name seems to have become popular lately but, people can't seem to grasp how to pronounce it...
It's AARON as in air-on (biblical).
Fools say ARRON as in A-Ron.
It's simple English!
Can't understand why they do this.
This thread is in response to a member who said that it's pronounced ARRON: were that to be the case, then AARON would be spelt ARRON!

Mom’s Midlands, isnnt it?

I did NOT bring up mental health - it was in response to another poster (read all the thread, perhaps?).
Having in a 50 year working live in transport, I have covered maybe nearly 2 million miles all over Britain:ave never - until the bastardisation, lately, of our language by American imports, heard "MOM".
MAM? Definitely - but not the trendy mom or mommy!.
The same people that cal mum "mom" are the same people that call fairy cakes muffins - and biscuits "cookies": I despair!

Not familiar? Makes you perhaps a little unqualified to comment, then, as he's one of the UK's most successful, prominent actors - and has been for decades...

How is ARRON pronounced?

Made perfect sense to me!

OP I think you should go round insisting on the ‘correct’ pronunciation:

In its original Hebrew, Aharon (אהרן) is pronounced as three syllables, a-ha-ron. This Hebrew pronunciation is still used in modern Hebrew in Israel today.

You mean he's NOT an ARRON? Well I'll be jiggered!

Cheers, Howells!

Just so!

Seems logical to me but, to many on this thread, YOU'D be wrong, too.

Aaron all the way. It's a beautiful looking spelling!

Well said!

But it's NOT spelt ARRON - it's spelt AARON!

Op are you drunk??

And that's ALUN - NOT Alan: same criteria applies to spelling. If you want to be called ARRON, then why nortspell it it that way?

Just so - up north, a little off Scotland!

Pronunciation of Alun sounds exactly the same as Alan to me 🤔

I wouldn't naturally give AA an AI sound though. That doesn't entirely make sense either

Oh dear, read some of the answers here - and you'll SEE the prevalence of the American influenced MOM.
Why, some here have even said it comes from the Midlands!
I don't watch much American stuff - but I DO KNOW what I hear in the streets, and see written, in THIS country!

Aargh - how do you say that then??

You're a bit shouty tonight!

I went to school with two Air-rons in the 90's. Aarons.

AND an Arun. He was , think , from India. He was incredibly fit and I was very in love with him from afar. The Air-rons weren't fit.

Irrelevant. But both are real names. Nowt to get wound up over. I knew a Kair-ren to (Keren). She was forever having to correct people who called her Karen.

All the aa words I can think of - aardvark, bazaar, salaam, naan - have an 'ar' sound, not 'air'. So if we're talking logic, Aaron should be pronounced Arr-ron, no? English obviously doesn't follow logical rules so if some want to pronounce it Arun then I can't see a problem with it!

Why thank you...
I seem to have ruffled a few feathers here: people don't like being taken to task about their silliness, when pointed out to them.

If "I" am a right one, then what does it say about those so disturbed by MY comment, that they JUST HAD to comment back?
If I read something posted by a "right one", then I'd think "fool", and not bother responding.
However, such is the need of many here to be "right" when they are obviously wrong (linguistically speaking), that they just can't help themselves!

Indeed!