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in reply to a message by Lily
Well, I had a very annoying coworker named Aaron, but I LOVE the book East of Eden (just visited the Steinbeck Center in Salinas, CA a few weeks ago, in fact), so Aron gets my vote.
Aaron feels more biblical while Aron (to me, at least) feels like a literary name. If not familiar with the book, others might see it as a modernization/streamlining of Aaron.
I do pronounce Erin and Aaron the same, which made for some funny Abbott & Costello style mayhem around the office when we would discuss coworker Aaron, other coworker's pregnant wife, Erin, or a competing firm in our industry which is ALSO named ERIN.
Aaron feels more biblical while Aron (to me, at least) feels like a literary name. If not familiar with the book, others might see it as a modernization/streamlining of Aaron.
I do pronounce Erin and Aaron the same, which made for some funny Abbott & Costello style mayhem around the office when we would discuss coworker Aaron, other coworker's pregnant wife, Erin, or a competing firm in our industry which is ALSO named ERIN.
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Yeah, I love East of Eden, too. I'm just finishing the book, and afterwards I'll watch the movie. He is named Aaron, but changes his name to Aron because his friends find the double As weird or something, I don't remember exactly, but everyone calls him Aron and it's on official documents so I guess it got legally changed or didn't even have to because he was named a year after he was born and there probably wasn't a birth certificate. I like Aron because it's calm and strong, but I also like Aaron a lot.
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