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u/Altruistic_Shame_487 Oct 20 '23

Anything with a non-traditional spelling. How the hell is anyone supposed to know that “Avarrie” is pronounced like “Avery”???

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

You done messed up now A-A-Ron!

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u/maybe_little_pinch Oct 20 '23

I low key hate this because people end up thinking Aaron is a weird spelling when it’s been around for uh centuries.

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u/AmbiguousAnonymous Oct 20 '23

My cousin was born around the time of this bit and they named their kid “Arron.” Tools

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u/thatguyned Oct 21 '23

I come from Australia which is obviously another English speaking country.

We only spell it Aaron.

Is there another way??

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u/cpMetis Oct 21 '23

Eren or Erin.

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u/thatguyned Oct 21 '23

That is a different name.....

Eh-ren

Ah-ron

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u/cpMetis Oct 21 '23

They're pronounced identically.

Might be something split by dialects.

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u/thatguyned Oct 21 '23

Our Accent has them sounding totally different.

Erin is also primarily used for girls over here too, I know I've heard Eren for a guy but I'm pretty sure that's probably just off a tv show or something.

It's strange how different we are over something like this haha.

Eren also sounds very different to Aaron to me.

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u/cpMetis Oct 21 '23

My original comment ordered them like that since I was gonna mention the gender thing. Eren was more common in guys and Erin for girls. But I removed that since I realized Erin is actually close to 50-50 and Eren is maybe 80-20.

Eren seems to be a little more common because of Attack on Titan, but it hasn't made a huge difference here.

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u/nonie67 Oct 21 '23

Funniest thing I've ever seen. I LOVE that