laura

[puella]

I have given up explaining this to people because most people claim that they can't hear the difference. But I just found it online explained perfectly

Comments

[gnosticelf]

Regional dialects can be strange beasts to deal with, particularly for people who haven't really travelled much in this country. I run into a similar problem as yours when it comes to my surname (Robson)--when I'm talking to people who have grown up in the South/Southeast, they pronounce it the way it's supposed to be (Rob as in "robber"). But when I was living in the Mid-Atlantic (where the Yankees have had much more of an influence on regional linguistics), I was constantly hearing people pronounce it "Robe-son," and they would seem surprised when I corrected them

[justgoodnight]

mine is pronounced are-uh, but I get or-uh allll the time. it drives me insane.

[miabebe]

well, i have a pretty bad boston/ny accent so you can probably guess how i say it. sounds like law rah. :/ or something of that nature. :( i don't say it either of the way's you mentioned. you should hear some of the funny ways people have pronounced my name. i'm just like ahhhhh...whatever!

[some_privateer]

i know a lot of lauras and i somewhat deliberately call all of them "lora," just because i like that pronunciation, and as the above guy said, it's more natural to my mouth. another note on dialects, my friend mark pronounces my name like "maeg" and i've never heard anyone else say it that way. he's from texas but there is definitely a noticeable accent when he says my name. weird.