The name Lara?

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Anonymous wrote:Are most of you pronouncing the name with an ah sort of a or an a as in apple (like the beginning of Larry but with an a at the end)? I have heard it both ways. There's a news reporter who pronounces it with the apple sound. Just from the way it is spelled, it looks as though it should be said with the apple sound, but you never know with names.

I've heard: lar (like tar) + ah

^ different than Laura (lore-ah)

I wouldn't pronounce Laura as lore-ah. That is spelled Lora, a different name. The first syllable in Laura is more like law.

I was in grade school with a Laura, and it was pronounced Lore-ah. Every Laura I've known since then pronounced it Lore-ah. The only women I know who pronounce it Lawr-rah are foreign.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't saddle my kid with a name where she's going to have to correct pronunciation for life.

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Anonymous wrote:Are most of you pronouncing the name with an ah sort of a or an a as in apple (like the beginning of Larry but with an a at the end)? I have heard it both ways. There's a news reporter who pronounces it with the apple sound. Just from the way it is spelled, it looks as though it should be said with the apple sound, but you never know with names.

I've heard: lar (like tar) + ah

^ different than Laura (lore-ah)

I wouldn't pronounce Laura as lore-ah. That is spelled Lora, a different name. The first syllable in Laura is more like law.

I was in grade school with a Laura, and it was pronounced Lore-ah. Every Laura I've known since then pronounced it Lore-ah. The only women I know who pronounce it Lawr-rah are foreign.

The people I've known with the name have been quite clear that it is not pronounced Lora or Lori because those are different names. There is no "o" in Laura. They always say they would have spelled it that way if they wanted it pronounced with the "or" sound.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are most of you pronouncing the name with an ah sort of a or an a as in apple (like the beginning of Larry but with an a at the end)? I have heard it both ways. There's a news reporter who pronounces it with the apple sound. Just from the way it is spelled, it looks as though it should be said with the apple sound, but you never know with names.

I've heard: lar (like tar) + ah

^ different than Laura (lore-ah)

I wouldn't pronounce Laura as lore-ah. That is spelled Lora, a different name. The first syllable in Laura is more like law.

I was in grade school with a Laura, and it was pronounced Lore-ah. Every Laura I've known since then pronounced it Lore-ah. The only women I know who pronounce it Lawr-rah are foreign.

The people I've known with the name have been quite clear that it is not pronounced Lora or Lori because those are different names. There is no "o" in Laura. They always say they would have spelled it that way if they wanted it pronounced with the "or" sound.

I don't know a single Laura that isn't pronounced Lore-ah.

[Anonymous]

All the US-born Lauras I've known were Lore-ah. I have known a few Spanish-language or Italian Lauras who were Low-rah.

I've also known a lot of people named Laurie who were Lore-ee, just like the people I've known named Lori.

(However, while I've seen lories, I've never heard a lory pronounce its name.)

[Anonymous]

I like it.

[Anonymous]

There is a Lara in DC's class this year. Love it!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are most of you pronouncing the name with an ah sort of a or an a as in apple (like the beginning of Larry but with an a at the end)? I have heard it both ways. There's a news reporter who pronounces it with the apple sound. Just from the way it is spelled, it looks as though it should be said with the apple sound, but you never know with names.

I've heard: lar (like tar) + ah

^ different than Laura (lore-ah)

I wouldn't pronounce Laura as lore-ah. That is spelled Lora, a different name. The first syllable in Laura is more like law.

I was in grade school with a Laura, and it was pronounced Lore-ah. Every Laura I've known since then pronounced it Lore-ah. The only women I know who pronounce it Lawr-rah are foreign.

The people I've known with the name have been quite clear that it is not pronounced Lora or Lori because those are different names. There is no "o" in Laura. They always say they would have spelled it that way if they wanted it pronounced with the "or" sound.

I don't know a single Laura that isn't pronounced Lore-ah.

They might pronounce it that way or they might be too polite to tell other people they are pronouncing it incorrectly.

I have a both a relative and a good friend who tell people specifically that it is not pronounced as Lora or Lori. They were both born in the US, in the northeast.

[Anonymous]

I have never in my life heard anyone say Law-rah. It sounds like someone is speaking with a speech impediment.

[Anonymous]

Oh, and OP, is it Lara like the Eastern European Dara?

[Anonymous]

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I don't know a single Laura that isn't pronounced Lore-ah.

They might pronounce it that way or they might be too polite to tell other people they are pronouncing it incorrectly.

I have a both a relative and a good friend who tell people specifically that it is not pronounced as Lora or Lori. They were both born in the US, in the northeast.

In the northeast, where? I don't think we're talking about Laura, here. I think that we're talking about the mary/merry/marry distinction and/or the Florida orange/Flahrida ahrange accent.

The mary/merry/marry map: http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_15.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have never in my life heard anyone say Law-rah. It sounds like someone is speaking with a speech impediment.

No. Actually it doesn't. Do you think names like Dara and Tara (tah-ra) sound like someone with a speech impediment?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have never in my life heard anyone say Law-rah. It sounds like someone is speaking with a speech impediment.

or maybe from the South?

[Anonymous]

It's my grandmother's name! Love it!

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Anonymous wrote:I have never in my life heard anyone say Law-rah. It sounds like someone is speaking with a speech impediment.

No. Actually it doesn't. Do you think names like Dara and Tara (tah-ra) sound like someone with a speech impediment?

Tar-Ah/Tare-Ah does not sound like Law-rah. Unless you mean that Law sounds like Lar.