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I like Dara, but I really want to say "DARR-uh" (like Daria, without the i). Which in itself is odd, since I'm Canadian and we say the first syllable of Sarah/Sara, Clara, Lara, and Tara to rhyme with "share". But there's something exotic about Dara that makes me want to treat it like Mara, which rhymes with "star". One of my friends has a cousin Tara that they say like British people, "TARR-uh", and it's SO WEIRD to hear/say it that way. I mean, I enjoy it, but it feels kind of unnatural.

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I also enjoy Dareth, which seems like a totally awesome way to honour Darth Vader on a girl.

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Cara is ok - I have a second cousin named Kara, so it's familiar to me. I definitely prefer the Cara spelling. We say it "kair-uh" - same pronunciation for both spellings.

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