Do you pronounce the names "Eric" and "Erica" mostly the same? How many syllables each?

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Eric: two syllables, AIR-ick

Erica: three syllables, AIR-ick-ah

Emphasis on the first syllable in each
Eric: EHH-rick
Erica: EHH-ric-kuh
EHR-ick

EHR-ick-uh

Only difference for me is that with Erica, I tend to compress the final two syllables enough that Eric & Erica don’t have a noticeable difference in how long it takes me to pronounce them.
I'm having trouble imagining how you would pronounce these differently? Eric Eric-a
- I tend to elide the "I" in Eric but not Erica, which is what got me thinking.
  
  People do it so often I assumed the character "Airk" in Willow was named Eric.
- Really screw with people and say
  
  Airck-A
  
  Tell them you're from Canada
With an accent it sounds more like airk and airkuh
- That's interesting. I say ayrn for iron, but air-i-ka for Erica. Don't know what my rule is for that.
  
  Aaron earned the iron urn
- With my accent it sure does.
- mine too, which is what got me thinkin'

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