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You can hear the pronunciation of Loránd here - http://www.forvo.com/search/lorand/. Lóránt is the same, just with a t in the end.
My pronunciation of Roland depends on the language, but in English I’d use RO-lənd.

This message was edited 2/3/2013, 12:25 PM

Lóránt reminds me so much of Loren, Laurence, and Laurent, I want to pronounce it in a similar way--sort of like lo-RAWN, with the ending said through the nose, all nasally. Granted, what I know about Hungarian wouldn't fill a bucket.

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I prefer Roland, and I pronounce it ROH-lund. It's the only way I've ever heard it in English.

ROW-lund.

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Lóránt is cool! Pretty sexy, actually.

Lorant is okay, but to my eye it looks more like a form of Laurent than Roland, even though it's - yeah, a form of Roland...

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I really like Roland. I don't have the rat association, and the only Rolands I can think of are fantasy novel characters.

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I pronounce it RO-land. Anything else sounds odd in English, in my opinion.

This message was edited 2/3/2013, 8:42 AM

As a Dane and pronounced as we do here, I'm pronouncing Roland as RO-land.

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But if I did it in English, I'd pronounce it as RAW-lin.

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:)