Yeah, vowels are friends. See under: I welcome you to my world, where shit and sheet are pronounced the same.
(I pronounce Erin and Aaron slightly different - very different if I'm speaking Hebrew where Aaron becomes Aharon, but the Mary/merry/marry is not gonna happen).
I know Jewish parents who named their girls Trinity and Bridget.
I pronounce Aaron sort of without a Rochester accent and Erin with a Rochester accent.
I cannot find a good example of my accent online. But sort of like Chicago or Detroit.
Erin with a Rochester accent.
That's like, stretched out to four or five vowels, right? Eeehhhhaaarrrin.
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Trudy pronounces them the way I do (unsurprising considering we both grew up in Morris County).
I got corrected by a woman whose name was spelled Carline, which I pronounced Carleen. She, being from Rhode Island, pronounced it Colleen.
You've lived in Rhode Island long enough to know the only R allowed there is the one at the beginning of the name!