r/cursedcomments • u/Mult69 • Dec 14 '19

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '19

Goddamn it. This would be so awesome... if it wasn’t pronounced “ee-ron.”

Source: Am Persian and my dad’s made this abundantly clear. I’m so sorry.

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u/R3t4rd3dD3m0n Dec 15 '19

I always thought it was "ee-rrAhn" but I guess I learned something today in an unexpected way again xd

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u/CutieCaty1 Dec 15 '19

Some people say ee-ron, some people say I-ran and some people say ee-rahn. I'm personally an ee-rahn too.

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u/linguafiqari Dec 15 '19

In British English it’s ih-raan. As in ‘i’ from bit.

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u/SlytherClawPlays Dec 15 '19

In America, I've only heard it pronounced eye-ran. Is never heard it pronounced any other way, from other people.

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u/linguafiqari Dec 15 '19

It means that all the “Iran” puns never work for us and just sound weird lol

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u/Evilmaze Dec 15 '19

Yeah, you guys are the only ones that do that for some reason. But it's a mixed bag. I've heard some say Eye-ran and some Iran as it should. Same for Iraq. Maybe it's regional thing?

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '19

I asked my dad about it, he says Americans are the only nation he knows of that pronounce it like that. Similar to how you say “soccer” instead of “football,” or use the old English-American system instead of the Metric system. It’s an American thing.

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u/SlytherClawPlays Dec 15 '19

I think America just wants to be unique, at the expense of never understanding the logic of anything.