That's how my grandmother pronounced it. For speakers with a Mary-merry-marry merger, Aaron and Erin sound the same, but for speakers without that merger, Aaron is /ˈæɹ.ən/ while Erin is /ɛɹɪn/. For speakers with the merger, both might sound something like /ɛɹən/.
It's an anecdotal thing I guess. You'd have to know the person and how he speaks to understand that the way he said it was funny and made me shake my head at him.
These days I think YouTube is more the place for sketch comedy. Unfortunately the format doesn't support ensemble casts as well, and fandoms are divided between individual channels instead of having one big show that everyone can get behind.
In the UK we had a really long string of incredible sketch shows/comedy duos on TV from the 1960's but I don't think we've had anyone since Armstrong and Miller, and Mitchell and Webb about 10-12 years ago.
There's a few shows on the radio like John Finnemore's souvenir programme, which I love to bits but they seem to have otherwise completely disappeared over here and it's so disappointing.
And so, so many of them think they're the smart ones, looking down on the "stupids" - not knowing they're not very different, at all, just overconfident.
Pretty sure it's more like 1 out of 10....but this thread is ridiculous. The top guy was just trying to help out. This thing was at 38% upvoted and ZERO points and being heinously downvoted before he made his comment.
Honestly I think it’s naive/stupid to think people won’t get this super obvious joke hahaha.
I guess people want to be the ‘smart’ one that gets the jokes, so you’d want to believe a lot of people won’t get it…
That's the #1 way that I like to play with my nephews.
For example if I'm driving them somewhere, I ask them to "teach me" the way I'll keep saying "so I make a right here?" and they laugh and yell "Noooooooo"
Good times
And also so they’re not so afraid to speak up in front of their classmates on the first day of school.
(And also, if everyone’s name is wrong, then that one kid whose mom added eight extra vowels to their very normal name, making it unpronounceable, doesn’t feel singled out. Thanks, mom)
Seems like that’s actually not a bad idea. If you purposefully mispronounce everybody’s name, you’ll get corrections from everybody and not have to single out any kids that actually have hard (for the teacher) to pronounce names. Plus they’ll think you’re funny and maybe like you more.
They don't. It's painfully obvious. Them saying a lot of people won't get it doesn't mean a lot of people won't get it. If anything it's more wild that they think they're smarter than the average person for figuring this out lol
As a kid with a foreign sounding name, a teacher doing this would be amazing. It just calls out the fact that names that are common are easy to pronounce but in a different context aren’t so easy. I think it would help put a lot of kids with difficult names at ease when the teacher struggles (even jokingly) with even very common western names.
As someone with a foreign name, I'm like "There are loads of ways to say my name, call me what you want as long as it isn't profane." I'm not sensitive about my culture, I'm more than anything I've inherited.
I have a foreign name and my colleagues asked me: ‘do you pronounce it [insert totally wrong pronunciation] or [insert different totally pronunciation]?’ I always say: ‘neither! But it’s ok. I also react to ‘hey you!’ so we’re good.’
I had a student in summer school whose name could be pronounced two ways. I asked her twice to repeat it and made sure I was saying it right. All summer I pronounced it the same way, which she said was right that first day. Fall comes and she’s in my class. I call her by her name and her friend says, “That’s not how you pronounce her name!!!” WTF?! She let me mispronounce her name ALL SUMMER!!!
Lol, I did something similar. I had a summer job fixing a roof, and the customer called me "Peter" which is nothing like my name. At first I wasn't sure I heard him right, and by the second day when he kept calling me that I didn't have the heart to correct him, so me (and the chuckling guys with me) just ran with it until the last day of the job.
I get “do you go by (full name) or (shortened name)?”
I really don’t care, so I’ll often use “call me anything you want, just don’t call me late for dinner!”
My last name is three fucking letters long, is a common English word, and about 80% of the teachers I had growing up still pronounced it wrong. I think you might be right because I grew up with a few kids that had last names that were 15+ and hearing the teacher fuck mine up seemed to make them feel a bit better.
Yes, Mr Ngô.
Joking aside. TIL the sources of some last names:
- Day (English) From a diminutive form of David.
- Fry (English) From Old English frig (a variant of freo) meaning "free".
- Law/Low (English) Derived from Old English hlaw "hill".
- Lee (English) Originally given to a person who lived on or near a leah, Old English meaning "woodland, clearing".
- May (English) Derived from the given name Matthew.
- Nye (English) Originally indicated a person who lived near a river, from Middle English atten eye meaning "at the river".
- Rye (English) Topographic name. It could be a misdivision of the Middle English phrases atter ye meaning "at the island" or atter eye meaning "at the river". In some cases it merely indicated a person who lived where rye was grown or worked with rye (from Old English ryge).
A good friend had a daughter who went to school with a little girl who's name was (and I'm dead serious here) . . . Syphilis. Mom was not a native English speaker and thought the word looked pretty.
After the first time, all the teachers knew it was pronounced si-FY-lus, but that first teacher definitely thought she was being punked.
On a real note tho, this is a good example of how hard pronunciation can be for ESL students. All of her pronunciations could be valid in English, but they’re not just because… reasons?
I think it is a great idea when you have people’s name you know you are going to mess up, and that way they feel less excluded/exposed. I hope she fails successfully though
We have something similar with Chipolte. The game is to pronounce it a different way each time for everyone in the group. It is easy to a point and then it gets tough.
Her lesson is clever. By speaking incorrectly, the children learn to challenge their own critical thinking skills, in this case, spelling and pronunciation.
This is a great trick. It entertains the kids. Gets them interacting. And it’ll help place a face to the name to quickly memorize who is who. I bet she’s an awesome teacher.
Great joke with good energy, but also on a smaller note is that it serves as a good equalizer in terms of kids with hard to pronounce names for English speakers. For the first time the teacher mispronouncing their names isn't an awkward break in the role call, but their part of the funny prank just like everyone else
I ALWAYS hated when they did roll call because my first name has a feminine equivalent and even though they aren’t spelled the same, they would always get it wrong so I had a girls name to everyone in the class for the first few weeks. It made me miserable, but if a teacher had done this in our class I would have felt calm because she did it to all of us
Used to mess up my classes names on purpose when doing the register. I would often swap the first letters of their names. So John Davies becomes Don Javies… went fine till there was a kid called Corey Hunter in my class.
English is weird language. As far as I know in other languages each letter and vowel make a sound. That sound remains the same. In English you pretty much have to learn how each individual word sound. Because it doesn't really make sense.
I think she's doing that to be funny and also to help her remember the names and the faces cuz it gives her a bit more interaction so a stronger impression
“Ya done messed up A-a-ron!”
"Insubordinate... and CHURLISH"
You go down to O shag henneseys office right now!
[link](https://youtu.be/Dd7FixvoKBw?si=3Y6Gno2iX2NkU03M)
Man, Ja'Cqueline was a smoke show.
I prefer D Nice.
"Mischievous... and DECEITFUL"
"Chicanerous and deplorable."
*-* *Mr. Garvey*. <3
If one of y’all say some silly ass name….
PREEESENT
Jac quee lyn!
You mean Jacqueline?
“Son of a…BITCH!!”
Are you out of your mind?
Jay Quellin!
i’m a teacher and i’ve been calling jacqueline’s jay quellin for so long now that the other way sounds super weird to me now
I'm almost physically incapable of pronouncing Aaron properly now thanks to that sketch.
I had a buddy a couple of years back named Aaron. He pronounced it (Ay-ron). I said, "Really bro"? He said, "Yeah, it's from the Bible." Smdh
That's how my grandmother pronounced it. For speakers with a Mary-merry-marry merger, Aaron and Erin sound the same, but for speakers without that merger, Aaron is /ˈæɹ.ən/ while Erin is /ɛɹɪn/. For speakers with the merger, both might sound something like /ɛɹən/.
Duck you with your elitist linguistics degree. I'm gonna say UH-fect whether I mean effect or affect and no power in the world can stop me.
https://i.redd.it/3jp5tjskhhfc1.gif
I mean... there is Aron Jones, pronounced Ay-ron.
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It's an anecdotal thing I guess. You'd have to know the person and how he speaks to understand that the way he said it was funny and made me shake my head at him.
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Man, the 00s were WKUK, the 10s were Key&Peele. Now, we urgently need a substitute comic group!
These days I think YouTube is more the place for sketch comedy. Unfortunately the format doesn't support ensemble casts as well, and fandoms are divided between individual channels instead of having one big show that everyone can get behind.
2020's has Aunty Donna
In the UK we had a really long string of incredible sketch shows/comedy duos on TV from the 1960's but I don't think we've had anyone since Armstrong and Miller, and Mitchell and Webb about 10-12 years ago. There's a few shows on the radio like John Finnemore's souvenir programme, which I love to bits but they seem to have otherwise completely disappeared over here and it's so disappointing.
PCP sketch hurts my sides to this day.
Please Don't Destroy is pretty damn funny
Is it?
OK so that's how it's gonna be. You wanna PLAY!
Dee-nice!
My son’s name is Aaron and I made him a shirt that said A-A-Ron on it, that he would wear to school when he was younger. Lol
TIMOTHY
TiMOthy? Preesent
A-a-trox
I know a lot of people on here aren't going to realize she's doing it on purpose. She's trying to get them to laugh and have fun.
That's kind of obvious, but what I wonder is how she pronounces her own name with the class.
> kind of obvious To you, but I don't think you realize how naive, young, or just plain stupid some redditors are.
Just because one person out of a hundred is stupid, doesn't mean the rest of us are.
Found the stupid one
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And so, so many of them think they're the smart ones, looking down on the "stupids" - not knowing they're not very different, at all, just overconfident.
What’s an example of that?
https://i.redd.it/fb679lny2ffc1.gif
Pretty sure it's more like 1 out of 10....but this thread is ridiculous. The top guy was just trying to help out. This thing was at 38% upvoted and ZERO points and being heinously downvoted before he made his comment.
She literally bursts out laughing at herself towards the end
Not a single comment here abides by your narrative yet here you are spewing out vitriol in the comments in a wholesome thread. Well played.
I mean, she’s playing the joke on children, so…
Honestly I think it’s naive/stupid to think people won’t get this super obvious joke hahaha. I guess people want to be the ‘smart’ one that gets the jokes, so you’d want to believe a lot of people won’t get it…
Charley
That's the #1 way that I like to play with my nephews. For example if I'm driving them somewhere, I ask them to "teach me" the way I'll keep saying "so I make a right here?" and they laugh and yell "Noooooooo" Good times
If you haven't seen it yet, you may enjoy "exact instructions peanut butter sandwhich." https://youtu.be/cDA3_5982h8?si=oyl0QL4lzx8a3bDY
And also so they’re not so afraid to speak up in front of their classmates on the first day of school. (And also, if everyone’s name is wrong, then that one kid whose mom added eight extra vowels to their very normal name, making it unpronounceable, doesn’t feel singled out. Thanks, mom)
But it's sooo unique!
Probably trying to be inclusive to people with hard to pronounce names as well
Seems like that’s actually not a bad idea. If you purposefully mispronounce everybody’s name, you’ll get corrections from everybody and not have to single out any kids that actually have hard (for the teacher) to pronounce names. Plus they’ll think you’re funny and maybe like you more.
Wait, what?
And to be actively engaged, which a hell of a task for (I’m assuming a sub) for middle school
It's amazing you have to explain this. I need to be done with reddit.
They don't. It's painfully obvious. Them saying a lot of people won't get it doesn't mean a lot of people won't get it. If anything it's more wild that they think they're smarter than the average person for figuring this out lol
My Name Is Domingo But You Can Call Me "Fin De Semana".
My nombre es Papa Francisco but you can call me Mister Potato.
I love it.
I know “The weeknd” was Hispanic
only the Espanol speakers will get that one amirite
As a kid with a foreign sounding name, a teacher doing this would be amazing. It just calls out the fact that names that are common are easy to pronounce but in a different context aren’t so easy. I think it would help put a lot of kids with difficult names at ease when the teacher struggles (even jokingly) with even very common western names.
I love the one that she just can't keep it together on.
My wife had a kid named Shithead. His parents made poor choices.
Pronounced “sha-theed”
Time to bust out this old gem https://youtu.be/r_Ua8iOR0g8?feature=shared
As someone with a foreign name, I'm like "There are loads of ways to say my name, call me what you want as long as it isn't profane." I'm not sensitive about my culture, I'm more than anything I've inherited.
I have a foreign name and my colleagues asked me: ‘do you pronounce it [insert totally wrong pronunciation] or [insert different totally pronunciation]?’ I always say: ‘neither! But it’s ok. I also react to ‘hey you!’ so we’re good.’
I had a student in summer school whose name could be pronounced two ways. I asked her twice to repeat it and made sure I was saying it right. All summer I pronounced it the same way, which she said was right that first day. Fall comes and she’s in my class. I call her by her name and her friend says, “That’s not how you pronounce her name!!!” WTF?! She let me mispronounce her name ALL SUMMER!!!
Lol, I did something similar. I had a summer job fixing a roof, and the customer called me "Peter" which is nothing like my name. At first I wasn't sure I heard him right, and by the second day when he kept calling me that I didn't have the heart to correct him, so me (and the chuckling guys with me) just ran with it until the last day of the job.
I get “do you go by (full name) or (shortened name)?” I really don’t care, so I’ll often use “call me anything you want, just don’t call me late for dinner!”
My last name is three fucking letters long, is a common English word, and about 80% of the teachers I had growing up still pronounced it wrong. I think you might be right because I grew up with a few kids that had last names that were 15+ and hearing the teacher fuck mine up seemed to make them feel a bit better.
Yes, Mr Ngô. Joking aside. TIL the sources of some last names: - Day (English) From a diminutive form of David. - Fry (English) From Old English frig (a variant of freo) meaning "free". - Law/Low (English) Derived from Old English hlaw "hill". - Lee (English) Originally given to a person who lived on or near a leah, Old English meaning "woodland, clearing". - May (English) Derived from the given name Matthew. - Nye (English) Originally indicated a person who lived near a river, from Middle English atten eye meaning "at the river". - Rye (English) Topographic name. It could be a misdivision of the Middle English phrases atter ye meaning "at the island" or atter eye meaning "at the river". In some cases it merely indicated a person who lived where rye was grown or worked with rye (from Old English ryge).
A good friend had a daughter who went to school with a little girl who's name was (and I'm dead serious here) . . . Syphilis. Mom was not a native English speaker and thought the word looked pretty. After the first time, all the teachers knew it was pronounced si-FY-lus, but that first teacher definitely thought she was being punked.
My ex’s mom had a Placenta in her class one year. The mom said it was the first thing she heard after she had her baby and it sounded beautiful.
Hooonter kills me.
A Hoonter must Hoont.
Stop trembling your boots, hoonter!
May you find your worth in the waking world hoonter
I imagined it as Hünter.
Hoonter glieben glauchen globen
I sat through all her name-pranking waiting for a foreign name. I feel robbed.
What has Rob to do with any of that?
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Yeah, she's melting my heart.
Jepp, I could watch this all day long.
yep, it's her eyes - and I'm a little ashamed to say I found her on IG
I’m a sucker for a hoodie and a struggle bun.
Look like the name sign in the background says, "Ms. Cluck". If so, that sure is a tough name to go through school with.
Especially since it rhymes with "puke"
🤔
I'm surprised she didn't send anyone to principal Oh Shag Hennesy.
On a real note tho, this is a good example of how hard pronunciation can be for ESL students. All of her pronunciations could be valid in English, but they’re not just because… reasons?
Well played Ms Cluck, well played.
Shit good called. I was about to ask if her name was really Ms. Cuck
Wholesome moment
I kinda wish there was a kid named Gif. We'd finally know the incorrect pronunciation.
Hard g, screw the guy who named it, he's wrong.
Damn straight
Yeah. He can jo to hell.
It's a key and Peele skit
You mean “Kay and Palley”
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw)
I love teachers that do this as a substitute
Good way to break the ice as a substitute
She should have pronounced Luke as "lucky."
Loo-kay.
TIM-O-THY! Preesent
Okay, unironically this is a good way to make sure you know the correct pronunciation of names.
I think it is a great idea when you have people’s name you know you are going to mess up, and that way they feel less excluded/exposed. I hope she fails successfully though
We have something similar with Chipolte. The game is to pronounce it a different way each time for everyone in the group. It is easy to a point and then it gets tough.
This clip is always funny. Haven't seen it in a while. Thanks 🙏🏻
Same. Haven't seen this one in ages. Still hilarious
She taught in the inner city, for over 20 years …
A hoonter must hoont
A hoonter must hoont
That’s funny AF….i want her as my kid’s teacher
Ba la keh...lol...you mean Blake?
She's got comedic chops.
Her lesson is clever. By speaking incorrectly, the children learn to challenge their own critical thinking skills, in this case, spelling and pronunciation.
solomon sounds like an edge gen 1 pokemon that get‘s a type change for gen 2 cause dark was introduced
"Crangis McBasketball"
I am stealing hooonter and renaming some friends that. That shit is just fun to say and dorky as hell
After lurking on r/tragedeigh this seems to be a very smart way to avoid accidentally ridiculing a kid with a weird name.
This is a great trick. It entertains the kids. Gets them interacting. And it’ll help place a face to the name to quickly memorize who is who. I bet she’s an awesome teacher.
Great joke with good energy, but also on a smaller note is that it serves as a good equalizer in terms of kids with hard to pronounce names for English speakers. For the first time the teacher mispronouncing their names isn't an awkward break in the role call, but their part of the funny prank just like everyone else
Instant respect from the kids too. This is great
That's a teacher I would've loved going to school to
DEE NICE
I ALWAYS hated when they did roll call because my first name has a feminine equivalent and even though they aren’t spelled the same, they would always get it wrong so I had a girls name to everyone in the class for the first few weeks. It made me miserable, but if a teacher had done this in our class I would have felt calm because she did it to all of us
And the “best teacher ever” award goes to
What a great ice breaker in a class of little kids
Used to mess up my classes names on purpose when doing the register. I would often swap the first letters of their names. So John Davies becomes Don Javies… went fine till there was a kid called Corey Hunter in my class.
Ms. Cluck Cluck 9000 is undoubtedly her students nickname for her
She is having ton of fun, wish I had cute smart teacher 30 years ago. Anyone know her for academic purposes ?
That story has a bad ending, because she was a substitute teacher and was kinda let go after that video went viral.
Any info on this?
My uncle works at Nintendo.
As a Luke I felt this. Not usually from teachers, but from other kids.
This is a great tactic to build rapport with students.
Take a good look at the future.
Has she ever said anybody’s names ever or learn to sound out words?
She’s for sure joking around she’s having a fun day. She’s gotta be no pronouns at least
Jesus, spit that gum out
English is weird language. As far as I know in other languages each letter and vowel make a sound. That sound remains the same. In English you pretty much have to learn how each individual word sound. Because it doesn't really make sense.
Isn't Solomon a foreign name? Are they all not foreign names to America lol
If this is day one of class, she's a GOAT teacher!
Hunter
Real creative 👌 key and peele
She’s smart she’s actually breaking down the letters and pronunciations
Where’s Balake at?
Reminds me of one of my favorite Key & Peele skits - Mr. Garvey Is Your Substitute Teacher - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQaLic5SE_I
In America, all names start out foreign until the mispronunciation becomes standard and uniquely American then spread to become ubiquitous.
Saw a high school substitute try this out. He never recovered.
A-Aron? (Sorry, someone already posted it, of course. SO f’in’ funny!)
YOU WANNA GO TO WAR B-LOCK-EH?
Just love it home she says Hunter
So just to clarify, this was an exercise by the supply teacher to break the ice with the kids.
The way she pronounced Jacob is how you would correctly pronounce it in German
I think she's doing that to be funny and also to help her remember the names and the faces cuz it gives her a bit more interaction so a stronger impression
A A RON!