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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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Why is Eric and Arian Prounced "Air"....

Why is Eric and Arian/Aryan pronounced "air"-ian or "air"-ic? When you pronounce Ar or Er it comes out as "Are" and "Err".? If you try saying "Eri" it comes off as "err-e" and if you try pronouncing "ari" it comes out as "R-e". Neither sounds like "Air". Where does that come from?
  

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Aries
aerobics
arable
ergo
erratic

...and there's no accounting for proper names, anyway.
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AnonymousEric and Arian
V = vowel; C = consonant

"ar" + V /?r/ .......... Mary, Gary, malaria, Arian, tariff, stare
"arr" + V /?r/ ......... arrow, Barry, carry, parrot, arras
"ar" + C /ar/ ..........
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English pronunciation varies. Not all English speakers would pronounce Eric as "air"-ic. Some do and some pronounce it as e-rik, with the letter e pronounced the same as the e in the words bed and get.

How exactly to pronounce words and names depends on which kind of English you learn.
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