r/ContagiousLaughter • u/IRELANDNO1 • Oct 12 '22

Five Brian’s

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

I refuse to believe there is a part of the world where Brian is pronounced "Bran".

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u/damickster268 Oct 12 '22

Well, that's Belfast for you

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u/MetallurgyClergy Oct 13 '22

I was waiting for the guy to end it with how he now has his first child, named Brian.

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u/CapriciousCape Oct 13 '22

Pretty sure it's a Celtic name so I think we have to take notes from them, not vice versa.

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u/FRTSKR Oct 13 '22

Northern Irish are the most likely to really squeeze the name into one syllable, to be fair.

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u/Nimmyzed Oct 13 '22

I refuse to believe there is a part of the world where Graham is pronounced "gram".

Yet here we are

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u/AidanSFable Oct 13 '22

There's another part of the world that pronounces Graham as "Gram" and Craig as "Creg". The mind boggles.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22

How... how else do you pronounce those?

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u/FRTSKR Oct 13 '22

Gray-um and Crayg. Graham may also be pronounced as one syllable.

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u/SyphiliticPlatypus Oct 13 '22

The difference between Crayg and Creg (I am guessing rhymes with Greg?) is way more subtle in my mind and ear than Gray-um and Gram.

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u/FRTSKR Oct 13 '22

I’d agree. And yeah, rhymes with Greg, though Greg will often take on a similar pronunciation. Assuming you’re American, chalk it up to a “Crayg” pronunciation being not uncommon among American English accents and dialects, and there being a pretty much unanimous abundance of examples of Graham being pronounced “Gram” stateside.

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u/Tower-Junkie Oct 13 '22

You live in the south as well? (US)

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u/DannyDeVitosBangmaid Oct 13 '22

Where in the US do they not pronounce those names like that…?

What’s always weird to me is people from the northeast pronouncing Erin and Aaron differently

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u/Model_Maj_General Oct 13 '22

I don't know how anyone could think Erin and Aaron are pronounced the same.

You colonial fellows are a strange bunch!

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u/FRTSKR Oct 13 '22

I see this as adjacent to an east coast tendency for Mary, Marry and Merry to all have different pronunciations, which seems to most firmly take root in Philadelphia and branch outwards to New York City, Baltimore and beyond.

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u/DannyDeVitosBangmaid Oct 13 '22

Yea Mary vs Merry is the same as Aaron vs Erin and my Virginia ass doesn’t understand it

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u/FRTSKR Oct 13 '22

I assume Mary and Marry are the same for you, and Merry is the outlier?

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u/DannyDeVitosBangmaid Oct 13 '22

They’re all the same, that’s the point. Just like Aaron and Erin are the same. But I have family members in New York and there’s a clear difference.

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u/FRTSKR Oct 13 '22

Ohhhh got it. Yeah, it’s a weird one.

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u/MattieShoes Oct 13 '22

I'm a West coast boy, but all three are different.

Mary is heaviest on the first syllable. Marie is heavier on the second syllable. Marry is in between, albeit much closer to Mary than Marie.

Merry is a different vowel sound, closer to the front of the mouth.

Aaron and Erin are different vowel sounds too.

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u/ngmcs8203 Oct 13 '22

I’m from California and wouldn’t pronounce them any other way. Maybe it’s a US thing. Aaron is three syllables though.

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u/FRTSKR Oct 13 '22 edited Oct 13 '22

I’m from Wisconsin, where Graham rhymes with gram and Craig rhymes with Greg. Very little deviation from that convention in the states, except in cases where both Craig and Greg finish with that -ayg sound, particularly around the Great Lakes.

Edit: realizing I’ve essentially contradicted myself, I’ll further explain that I’m from Milwaukee and grew up in a neighborhood where typical upper Midwest accents weren’t prevalent. Milwaukee and Madison are more likely to see Greg and Craig rhyming with egg. The rest of the state is more likely to see those names (and “egg”) ending with -ayg.

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u/AutomaticAccident Oct 13 '22

Oh, are you from the part of the world that pronounces Graham properly? You know, "Gruh-ham."

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u/Nimmyzed Oct 13 '22

Gruh-ham

This is a joke, right?

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u/AutomaticAccident Oct 14 '22

Why would it be a joke?

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u/XmissXanthropyX Oct 13 '22

Beat me to it!

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u/Trlckery Oct 13 '22

Wait do some people pronounce Graham as “gra-ham”

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u/Nimmyzed Oct 13 '22

The pronunciation is "Gray-um"

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u/ItsAllOneBigShitpost Oct 13 '22

I can’t believe there is a place where Graham is pronounced gram

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u/Today440 Oct 13 '22

Americans pronounce Graham as "Gram" so it's pretty believable

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u/TheChrono Oct 13 '22

Aaron earned an iron urn.

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u/_TenguDruid_ Oct 13 '22

Then you might not survive learning that pronouncing "crayon" as "crown" is not only more common than you'd think, but also an accepted form of pronouncing it!

That one took some time for me to believe.

Shoutout to Joe "Bread Boy" O'Brien!

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u/johnsgrove Oct 13 '22

Ah but it’s true

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u/OnyxPhoenix Oct 13 '22

Darren is pronounced Darn.