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?

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[springtide-hfa.livejournal.com]

I would pronounce Sarah the way you described, but Sara like "Saw-ruh"

[tiffrobyn.livejournal.com]

Most I know with the name pronounce it Serruh. I've known a couple that say sair-uh though.

[cluckydude.livejournal.com]

I say it like you do - sair-uh - but I've also heard it pronounced sahr-uh.

I'm in Ontario, Canada - I wonder if it varies geographically?

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

That seems like the exact same pronunciation to me, lol.

[tiffrobyn.livejournal.com]

That's what annoys me about the internet! What you think in your head doesn't always go into words the way you mean it to!

[cerise-blue.livejournal.com]

sair-uh. spelled sara, i'd be torn between sahr-uh and sair-uh though.

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Ditto.

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that's the only way I've heard it. But some of these other comments have slightly confused me b/c I can't hear what they are spelling.

And I've never heard a different pronunciation for Sara.

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY.

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

It's like the different between the Kara pronunciations.

car-uh or care-uh
sar-uh or sare-uh

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

hmm...I've never heard sar-uh, but I guess that makes sense since you can do Kara that way.

[darabelle.livejournal.com]

I pronounce it the same way you do. However, my name is Dara and I pronounce the "a" like the "a" in "cat" or "apple." Haha there is just no rhyme or reason to it!

[dancing-crazy.livejournal.com]

In English I'd indeed pronounce it the way you described. In Hebrew I'd pronounce it suh-ruh.

[cluckydude.livejournal.com]

For the record, I pronounce Sarah and Sara exactly the same way. Sair-uh. Sahr-uh, well, that just sounds weird to me.

Also, the Meghan/Megan thing. I pronounce them both Megg-ann, but some say Mee-gann, regardless of spelling, and I know one Mee-gann who spelled it Megan and insisted that Meghan is Megg-ann and Megan is Mee-gan.

I *loathe* the Mee-gan pronunciation, and Megg-ann is boring.

[solyma.livejournal.com]

i pronounce it sair-uh.

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

My sentiments exactly.

[x-lostinyou.livejournal.com]

I pronounce everything the same way as you do. Sarah and Sara are the same. As are Megan and Meghan.

And I'm also in Ontario, heh, so maybe that's why.

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

The sar-uh Sara I know, her mother immigrated from Columbia. So it might be the way it's said in Spanish or Columbian Spanish... I'm not sure.

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

sair-uh.

[ginky.livejournal.com]

I say it like you do, but I've known several Saw-dah (you know where dah is really a rolled Spanish R) I will generally start with Sair-ruh, but if the person says Saw-dah, so will I.

[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...)

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

I say it Sair-uh

[monalyssasmile.livejournal.com]

Sarah and Sara are the same sair-uh

[sarahgeddes.livejournal.com]

That's the only way I've had someone pronounce my name. But I've had some interesting spellings.

[heyitsrebecca.livejournal.com]

I'd pronounce Sarah and Sare the same.. Sair-uh.
I've never known anyone to pronounce it Sahr-uh, and if I ever do come across it, I'd probably laugh. To me Sahr-uh sounds like someone trying to 'church up' the commonness of Sarah.. LOL

[wake-tonight.livejournal.com]

I'm in Australia and i would say Sarah - sair-uh and Sara - Sahr-uh

[seren.livejournal.com]

definitely sair-uh.

i've known a few people called sara, and they can be either sair-uh or sarrr-uh.

[dreemerr.livejournal.com]

i've always pronounced sara and sarah the exact same way, which is the way you described it (sair-UH)

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

SAIR-uh for Sarah, SARR-uh or SARR-ah for Sara, ZARR-uh/ZARR-ah for Zara, SYE-ruh for Saira.

[a-groovy-gypsy.livejournal.com]

Funny....I pronounce it May-gan. And I prefer the spelling Meaghan.

[ellycopter.livejournal.com]

sarah = sair-uh.
sara = sah-ruh. only sair-uh in the ben folds song.

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

Me too! Thank you!

[adamant-turtle.livejournal.com]

I always thought "Mee-gan" was the pronunciation for the spelling "Meagan/Meaghan" :-/

Re: Sarah - I've always said it "Sair-uh" too. And I live in CT.

[thursdayx.livejournal.com]

ahh, I don't know how to type the way we pronounce it here...



sarr-uh (?)

it rhymes with Kara
[if you say it the way thats not like CAR-uh or Care-uh]
haha I hope that made sense.

[poespretty.livejournal.com]

me too, me too & me too on all 3 of your statements.

[ouronlylight.livejournal.com]

I say it as sair-uh, for both Sarah and Sara. My grandmother, interestingly enough, pronounces the name as sur-uh, but she has a central Virginia dialect and pronounces her A's strangely.