I used to feel like Aerith sounded stupid because it sounds like Aeris with a lisp. Thankfully my brain dissolved that association over time, because there's just no getting away from it. I've gotten used to, and fond of the way Aerith sounds now. But that may just be conditioning. Regardless, you can't get away from it now. Their official stance is here and it's not going to regress

Fascinating that Barret may have meant to be Bullet though, and nobody started a pronunciation war over that name

Also weird how Lydia and Rydia never blew up. People used their preferred style and nobody gave a crap who said what