I've always heard Lara pronounced 'Lair-uh'...I really HATE the way it sounds.
Laura is lore-uh to me, just like Laurie is lore-ee (I know a girl who insists that you pronounce it Lar-ee (Lar as in car), which I don't like at all)
As a Lara, I think I've got some authority on the topic.
You pronounce the name however the person whose name it is pronounces it. It's called mimicry. Parrots can do it. Arguing with them over the pronunciation of their own name is endlessly frustrating.
Lara and Laura have different origins and meanings, and are not, imho, interchangeable.
I love my name, (which is pronounced simply, phonetically, Lah (as in do re mi fa so LA ti do) - rah (as in Rah Rah Sis Boom Bah) and which my mother picked from Dr. Zhivago, but the constant mispronunciation has been a thorn in my side for my entire life.
It's not that I think that her name should be pronounced a different way (sorry if it sounded that way :/). It's more that it bothers me when someone says it the wrong way and are snapped at/ridiculed because they mispronouce it one time. I try to avoid said Laurie at all times, because she tends to be obnoxious if you don't say her name EXACTLY as she wants it, even on meeting her for the first time.
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Date: 2006-04-29 11:43 am (UTC)Laura is lore-uh to me, just like Laurie is lore-ee (I know a girl who insists that you pronounce it Lar-ee (Lar as in car), which I don't like at all)
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Date: 2006-05-01 01:21 pm (UTC)You pronounce the name however the person whose name it is pronounces it. It's called mimicry. Parrots can do it. Arguing with them over the pronunciation of their own name is endlessly frustrating.
Lara and Laura have different origins and meanings, and are not, imho, interchangeable.
I love my name, (which is pronounced simply, phonetically, Lah (as in do re mi fa so LA ti do) - rah (as in Rah Rah Sis Boom Bah) and which my mother picked from Dr. Zhivago, but the constant mispronunciation has been a thorn in my side for my entire life.
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Date: 2006-05-01 07:55 pm (UTC)