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Discovering you've been pronouncing a word wrong all your life

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mulbs Dec 2022 3:19pm, 19 Dec 2022 14,335 posts	Quote Pin mulbs rhetoric [ ret-er-ik ] Also, would agree with the long A for Aaron, which makes it annoying that the only Aaron I know pronounces it as "Arran"
3 Wise Ms Dec 2022 3:40pm, 19 Dec 2022 19,948 posts	Quote Pin 3 Wise Ms I've known people called Arron (a-run) and Aaron (Aer-ron). It never even occurred to me Arron might have been an Aaron! I've always said it as "Aeron" on the grounds that's how the nice Sunday School teacher said it, in a very well spoken china teacup kind of British Empire accent. (Her father was a Major in the Raj, or something similar. All very upper middle class. ) On the subject of biblical names - loads of people don't seem to be able to spell Isaac - most common corruption seems to be "Issac". Which to me is clearly "Is-sac", but there you go! I guess it was an arbitrary choice of how you translate, anglicise and spell Hebrew/Aramaic names in English. By way of example I give you Joshua, Yeshua, Yesu, Jesu, and Jesus! All those "J"s should have come across as "I"s originally, I think!
Raptors Claws are coming to town Dec 2022 5:44pm, 19 Dec 2022 61,726 posts	Quote Pin Raptors Claws are coming to town Like 3 Wise Ms, I was taught "Airon" at school and in church and it's how I'd have pronounced it if I'd had enough sons for it to get to the top of my list of names.
Nord SledRunner 🛷 Dec 2022 6:32pm, 19 Dec 2022 2,440 posts	Quote Pin Nord SledRunner 🛷 IMHO it's a bit of an oddity that the A in Arran the jumper doesn't have a long form except in dialects AFAIKT.
K5 Gus Dec 2022 10:23pm, 19 Dec 2022 5,561 posts	Quote Pin K5 Gus The Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland are famous for their jumpers, the isle of Arran, off the west coast of Scotland, is not
Nord SledRunner 🛷 Dec 2022 11:06pm, 19 Dec 2022 2,442 posts	Quote Pin Nord SledRunner 🛷 Well, I never knew that!
One Thousand Oddly Festive Spiders Dec 2022 1:45pm, 20 Dec 2022 1,812 posts	Quote Pin One Thousand Oddly Festive Spiders Feral - Fearal (me) vs. Ferral, still sounds wrong saying it the other way
Dooogs Dec 2022 1:56pm, 20 Dec 2022 9,165 posts	Quote Pin Dooogs Nougat. It's always been "nugget" in our family, rather than "noo-gar"
Raptors Claws are coming to town Dec 2022 2:08pm, 20 Dec 2022 61,758 posts	Quote Pin Raptors Claws are coming to town Same here, Dooogs. Until Postman Pat's learn the alphabet video came along and infested my children with it's "Nutty Noogah".
GordonG Dec 2022 2:32pm, 20 Dec 2022 9,529 posts	Quote Pin GordonG I'd always say noo gar, bur Mrs Gordong insists on nugget. Just don't get us started on Fruit Pastilles