Welcome to Gaia! ::

Unfortuantely, FFVII is severely plagued by mistranslations, the "Aeris-Aerith" being one of many, like the scorpion thing, and many times where Aerith says "it" where she should have said "you" or something else.

Its like an arguement, Aeris is better! No wait Aerith is better! They're just Japan and American Translations. Personally, I like aeris better. =)

I'm a newb to this guild but I believe that the original name areith is better besides I know that arieth is the japanese version,because my friend saw the japanese version and he played it and since he is japanese he could read what they were saying

i prefer aerith it sounds prettier and more unusual

I'm agreeing here. If one were to use a standard English-Japanese phonetic translation, then the direct translation of her name would be Earisu- which can also be pronounced Aeris or Aerith. In Japanese, an -s ending and a -th ending is pronounced the same way. It's really just a matter of preference. The -u at the end is included in the characters for her name (the last character is "su") because, as far as I know, it's considered strange to end a Japanese word in a consonant, and the u is just sort of attached to the "s" character. When her name is pronounced, though, the u is usually really fast or ommited.

i like Aeris much better

Just got messed up in the translation.