OT: Jared/Jarrod

Tristan McLeay scripsit:

> (Jarrod is pronounced /dZ&r@d/. Roger points out that the capital should
> indicate that 'Jared' 's not a past tense, but even still, it'd then be
> pronounced /dZe:r@d/ because the single consonant isn't enough to stop the
> vowel being wrong. Americans that don't distinguish between 'Mary' and
> 'marry', though, I guess won't have this problem.)
BTW, the original form is surely "Jared"; it's an Old Testament name
(< Heb. "descendant").  "Jarrod" is one of the innumerable spelling
variants.  I bet it came into English in the 16th century when so
many other Old Testament names did.  However, it is also a saint's
name, so it may have seen use before then as well.

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