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By instinct I pronounce them both like Tara - i.e. to rhyme with car plus -uh yet I pronounce Clara as clair-uh probably due to hearing it pronounced that way at home whenever mum bought tulip bulbs of the hybrid called "Dame Clara Butt" after a British opera singer.

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Anyway, Dara is okay but Cara is my preference out of the two, probably owing to its links to the Welsh "love" and thus to whichever remote ancestor of mine was called Caradoc (giving the family name Cradock) and the fact that it's the name of a friend's toddler.

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Cora just reminds me of an apple corer ...