: I can't even show a way of pronouncing it, because the
: very parts of the pronounciation are pronounced
: differently in America than they are here!
: I don't pronounce "a" as "ah", it's
: short and crisp in baron (god, this is getting really
: out of hand). Christ this is difficult to explain.
: Jesus. Hell. Urmmm....
: Americans tend to pronounce the "ba" of baron
: as "bah". I pronounce it as "ba".
: There, that's all the explanation you're getting. I am
: so very bored.
: Now try and think of a Scot saying "run". It
: sounds almost "ron", but don't emphasise the
: "o"!
: Bugger. This hurts my head.
Well, let's do it in terms of Romance languages, then, since most of us know at least one of them (French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanche, Esperanto, and I would include Latin except the British are almost as bad at pronouncing it as Catholic school kids are) and pronunciation's pretty much the same in all.
WW, you pronounce the "a" in "baron" pretty much like a long Romance "a," and the "e" in "heron" somewhere between a long and a short Romance "e", and the "o" in both somewhere between a long Romance "o" and a long Romance "a", right?
Whereas all the Americans I know pronounce *both* the "e" in "heron" and the "a" in "baron" somewhere between a long and a short Romance "e", and we pronounce the "o" in both with that schwa sound which is somewhere between a short Romance "o" and a short Romance "i".
And, of course, since the ratio of our population to yours is a-whole-hell-of-a-lot to 1, our pronunciation is the correct one. :-)
--SiliconDream
