View Message

I don’t think this applies in the UK. American pronunciations aren’t really applicable to most British accents. “Can” does have a flat A sound here and no one would say Hairy for Harry.

---

I’ve lived in several places in the UK, with vastly different accents, and A-rən is the usual, with AIR-ən being a more affected pronunciation that I’ve heard probably once. They are distinct pronunciations. As a side note, Erin is pronounced differently, too — it’s EH-rin. EH as in “bet”.