Graham

I'm wondering how people pronounce the name (or the crackers) 'Graham'. For me, it rhymes with gram, but there seems to be several ways to pronounce it.

I pronounce it /gr{m/, like you.

In other words, I could measure an object's mass in kiloGrahams, milliGrahams, etc. ;-)

I always thought it was gray-ehm, but hey, I am Norwegian!

Don't worry Fredrik, both pronunciations are widely used. In fact I think the "more correct" pronunciation would probably be Gray-um as opposed to Gram.

I am very relieved!

Hmm, I just looked up "Graham" on an online dictionary, and they listed one of the pronunciations as /gr{@m/, which I suppose could be realized as /gr{:m/ - a nice compromise between Grayum and Gram.

I pronounce it the same way as "gram."

I say Gray-um (um is schwaed though)

I say Gray-um as well (schwaed as well). I had a close friend in school called like that. That was back in Sydney and Frances is from Adelaide.

From Ad-laide :)

From Seed-nee ;-)

how about Juan Antonio - "and the winner is...Seeden-ee, Australia!" :)

"Graham" and "gram" are homophones for me too.

I too also pronounce "graham" and "gram" both as /gr{m/ --> [gr\{~:m].

All this talk about "Graham" reminds me of the little graham crackers covered in cinnamon I used to eat as a little kid. Random thought...are those common in other countries or is that a particularly American thing?