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Aaron - v - Arron

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2perkins · 12/09/2019 18:41

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!

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Biancadelrioisback · 13/09/2019 13:19

I know this wasn't aimed at me but

H-oo-f and b-oo-k

Both with the "oo" sound

honeyloops · 13/09/2019 13:21

Ooh alright @bianco I'll let you off with that example 😂 my flat Lancashire vowels giving me away there!

Biancadelrioisback · 13/09/2019 13:25

Haha Honey my geordie-ness means that its always "oo". Quite often it's "oooOOOoo" too.

GrannySquares · 13/09/2019 13:30

A-Ron

CatkinToadflax · 13/09/2019 14:11

I'm intrigued by OP's claim of an alternative pronunciation to arrrrrdvarrrrk. Confused

Blueuggboots · 13/09/2019 14:14

I know an Aaron and he's Air-on.
I knew an Arron at school who was A-run.
If you spell it Aaron, it SHOULD be pronounced Air-on or you should spell it differently!!

TurquoiseDress · 13/09/2019 14:25

I've only ever known people with it pronounced A-Ron, we live in London

Known that there is the other pronunciation but never met anyone with it said like that

Also, the spelling- is Aaron meant to be the "correct" way?

I've seen it spelt Arron before and thought it was a mistake

Either way, it's not a name I've ever liked or put on the baby name short list! too much ambiguity (IMO) for my liking

Sunshineys · 13/09/2019 14:34

There's also Arun. Pronounced A roon

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 13/09/2019 15:00

I know a couple of Aarons - one is an Air-un and the other is an Arrun.

Aardvark is obviously aaaaarrrrdvark.

And Alan/Alun are pronounced the same from my London perspective. I'd only change it up for the French Alain.

Smidge beat me to it on the prairie dog vid - that was my thought as soon as I saw the name Alun/Alan being mentioned!

I mostly do people the courtesy of listening to how they pronounce their name and following suit, rather than imposing my dogmatic views on how their name SHOULD be pronounced.

The name Karen, for e.g. - Karrun or Kahr-un? I knew both. Both spelt the same but different pronunciation.
I know a Sara who pronounces it Sair-ah, not Saar-ah.

Sunshineys · 13/09/2019 16:19

Aardvark is obviously aaaaarrrrdvark.

So Aaron would be pronounced aaaarrron.

Scarletoharaseyebrows · 13/09/2019 17:04

sunshineys followed by "mi hearties" and a swashbuckling arm!

SilverySurfer · 13/09/2019 17:50

Any Aarons I have known in my long life have, without exception, pronounced their name as Aron not Airon. As for Alun and Alan, they are pronounced exactly the same.

LinoleumBlownapart · 13/09/2019 18:23

Well this reminds me of this...

Aaron - v - Arron
EdWinchester · 13/09/2019 18:30

Don't know any and never given it much thought, but will admit I thought Aaron was pronounced arrun.

What about Michelle, and those that pronounce it Meee-shell. That would drive me nuts if it was my name.

ClashCityRocker · 13/09/2019 18:34

Mum's been mom forever in the east Midlands hasn't it? Its not just an American thing.

I'm Yorkshire, so I have a mam.

I've known both air-ons and arrons both spelt Aaron. I prefer the former, but can't say the latter gives me sleepless nights.

MikeUniformMike · 13/09/2019 18:44

SilverySurfer, Alun and Alan aren't pronounced the same. Alun is a welsh name and it is pronounced AL-in. It's a popular name in Wales, and I know several of them.
I also know a welsh Alan, who pronounces it phonetically (AL-an, rhymes with Tincan)

BertrandRussell · 13/09/2019 18:48

Well, i’ve tweeted the Reverend Richard Cole and asked him. I’ll let you know if he replies!

Scarletoharaseyebrows · 13/09/2019 18:53

A nasty old relative of mine in the 80's used to trot out a horrible anti Semitic poem where Aaron rhymed with Square'un. *

I've known both. It's not going to end the world however it's pronounced.

  • he met a happily miserable end!
SumAndSubstance · 13/09/2019 19:46

This thread is hilarious! Are we assuming the OP has sobered up now?

BlueBilledBeatboxingBird · 13/09/2019 19:56

It’s been ‘mom’ in the midlands for at least a hundred years and probably longer.

Mumoftwoyoungkids · 14/09/2019 00:22

Can I ask a silly question? How do you know how it is pronounced from the Bible? The Bible wasn't in English originally and has been translated as many times, surely pronunciation for some words and phrases may have been lost since then?

That is a really good point.

We did the following passage from Luke last week in church:-

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sistersyes, even their own lifesuch a person cannot be my disciple.“

Which seems completely the opposite to what you’d expect Jesus to say. Then read the equivalent passage in Matthew:-

“Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;”

And problems with translation quickly become clear.

SemperIdem · 14/09/2019 00:48

I think I know the op in real life, posting style very similar to that of a Facebook friend’s posts.

There surely cannot be two of them.

AverageMummy · 14/09/2019 07:24

OP you must be over your hangover by now?

AverageMummy · 14/09/2019 07:24

@SemperIdem intriguing

Tfoot75 · 14/09/2019 07:41

I'm in the Midlands, and FYI mom is not a mispronuniciation of mum and neither is it an Americanism, it is just the local word for mother, mum and mummy is not used at all. Just as nan or nanny is commonly used for grandmothers. Far predates American TV. My nan was known as mom to her children, she would have turned 100 this year and her eldest child well into her 70s. So clearly common dialect in the 40s and I'd expect earlier than that.

Aaron is also pronounced as Arran here, that's the accepted pronunciation and the way anyone who came across the name would pronounce it in this area. I've never come across an airon.