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Hey all!
So I've noticed that many people don't know how to correctly pronounce "Iram". I think there are technically 2 correct pronunciations .

But anyways, I decided to make it a game.

So, how do you pronounce "Iram"?
(Please give a detailed pronunciation ;D )



Iram

First though was I ram like Iran

but I'm thinking ee rum?

I'm in the ee-rum camp.

Ear-Am

Or

E-Rom

Whenever I see your name my mind jumps between those two.

I'm with Kham ... Ear-Am is what's in my head :)

Agreed, Ir-Am like Ear-Am with a short "i" sound and a long "a" sound

That's a new one

You like it.

Eye-ram?

Actually not a fan XD

Haha, how do you pronounce it?

It depends on if you are interested in it being easy for English speakers to guess, in which case it's EYE-rum, rhyming with "Hiram," or if you want it to be authentically Latin, in which case it would be "EE-rahm" (extra points for rolling the "r" just a touch, and try to avoid drawing out the vowels as long as an English speaker would.  (If you've heard the Spanish "i" and "a," that's the basic idea.)

hehe . . . . wouldn't Canadians say Ear-Ooom, lol . . .  :P

no no, ear ohm

I was definitely thinking "EYE-Rum" but now I am convinced by the Latin pronunciation, "EE-rrom"

Iram, is that your real name? Or just a alias?

this is how I am saying it http://vocaroo.com/i/s1CkK9HdMyrc (http://vocaroo.com/i/s1CkK9HdMyrc)

Greg wins. These are usually the 2 ways I pronounce it. But there are lots of ways to pronounce it.



Basically yes. :D :D



It's just my chief alias. It'd be a sick name though...

Alright, let me try this again...is it like Ear-Rahm?

I pronounce it "ee-rom"

The latin way, using the continental pronunciation of the wovels and  our (Italian) r sound.

By the way, since we are talking about it, is there a specific reason behind your choice of the accusative case?

Something like "Ee-rum" I think (it's double difficult to write in english how I would pronounce something that I probably don't pronounce like an english speaking person^^)
So the "I" would be "Ee" (like the "i" is pronounced in german) and the "ram" would be "rum" ("why is the rum always gone") because the "a" in german is pronounced more like the english "u"

I have always thought of it as "I-ram". The letter "I" followed by "ram", as in a battering ram. I've never thought of it being different. :)

Not in particular, I just wanted a different form of "Ira", and I felt "Ira" itself was a little too common.

By the way, Thanks guys for all of the replies. I was just curious.

I was saying "eye-rum", but now I stand corrected. 

Oh, and I AM CANADIAN, and at no point do I say "Doot", or "Aboot".

In fact, I only pronounce a long o sound when it's needed; as in "Roof".  ;D :P ::)

but you say aboat instead of about

No, actually I do not.  Maybe the newfies do, but I have no control over that. lol

I'm also fluent in French, so pronunciation is somewhat important to me. :)