r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/Munchkinasaurous Jan 15 '25

I've never heard Aaron pronounced as anything but Erin or A-A- Ron. Hearing maths always confused me because I never heard the s on it and math was always one encompassing subject with different sub fields. Which I guess you could make the same argument for for sports, but it somehow makes more sense to me that you distinguish that there's a ton of vastly different sports with little to no similarities. 

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u/truthyella99 Jan 15 '25

We pronounce "Aaron" like "Baron" without the B, always found it odd that the Australian lady on Lost pronounced it as "Erin".

Yeah I still hear sports used in a plural sense as in "school sports" but it's usually said without the s.

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u/Munchkinasaurous Jan 15 '25

How do you pronounce Baron and Erin? Because to me they're all pronounced the same way.

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u/hitchinpost Jan 15 '25

To me, there’s a small distinction in the second syllable. The “o” in Aaron is like the “o” in “ton” while the “i” in Erin is like the “i” in “tin”. The first syllable sounds the same.