lol now let's dust off Mary/merry/marry - these are words that sound slightly different in my head but when I speak them aloud they all sound the same. Like I CAN make them sound different but it is very affected.

Lor-Ah

I would say Lore-a. Love this choice.

I sometimes wonder if people are reading phonetic pronunciations the way I do.

I pronounce it like the English pronunciation here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzX7C7MlTRw

Unless the person speaks Spanish, then I use the second. Although I know some people who speak Spanish and pronounce the R more like a D.