Sarah

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

Okay, based on a convo I just had with grypx...


How do you pronounce Sarah? It happens to be my name. I thought it was just a standard, normal pronunciation, but apparently not.


I have always heard it (my whole life and referring to anyone else with the name) as sair-uh - the first syllable rhyming with hair.



You?

Comments

[neroli.livejournal.com]

Yes, there are geographical differences in the way that people pronounce (and even hear) certain vowel sounds.

Poke around this speech accent archive (http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_language.php?function=find&language=english) online (with speech samples from people from various regions) and you'll get a taste. Some of my online friends and I did our own version of this and we were rolling just listening to all the different ways people said "bags" (bags, baygs, beggs...)