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Trouble__Bound t1_iseoyhr wrote

Reply to comment by thephartmacist in The Saturday Daily Thread by fusion260

Did your coworker pronounce it Parham or Parham?

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thephartmacist t1_isepv19 wrote

They pronounced it Paer-um or Pear-m. She wanted it said par(like golf)-hem

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___zero__cool___ t1_isf2msi wrote

I also pronounce it “pear-m”, but I still don’t understand this customers preferred pronunciation. If you’re going to use a long ‘a’ in the first half, why do you get to clip it to a short ‘a’ on the back end? I feel like they should be pronouncing their name par(like golf)-ham(like bacon).

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