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Help[Opinions] Re: Dara
in reply to a message by Lissa
Things I think of:
Dara has been a fairly popular name for a boy in Ireland recently, I noticed. I'm not sure how they say it.
Dara's the name of a woman about my own age I know, whose name is pronounced DAIR-a. I'd never heard it before I met her.
So with my minimal exposure to the name, I'm tending to think of it as ambiguous like Dana is, and on a girl it could be DAIRa..
I'd like it better, actually, as DAHra on a girl. I was always mispronouncing DAIRa's name that way, since it looks more like DAHra to me.
Although it doesn't share an origin with the name Dorothy, it sounds close enough that if you consider it honors your mom, then it does. Especially if your mom went by Dora.
If my mom told me she'd chosen my name in honor of her mother, I wouldn't care much if it didn't mean the same or sound exactly the same. All that would matter would be that my mom meant for it to honor my grandmother.
- chazda
Dara has been a fairly popular name for a boy in Ireland recently, I noticed. I'm not sure how they say it.
Dara's the name of a woman about my own age I know, whose name is pronounced DAIR-a. I'd never heard it before I met her.
So with my minimal exposure to the name, I'm tending to think of it as ambiguous like Dana is, and on a girl it could be DAIRa..
I'd like it better, actually, as DAHra on a girl. I was always mispronouncing DAIRa's name that way, since it looks more like DAHra to me.
Although it doesn't share an origin with the name Dorothy, it sounds close enough that if you consider it honors your mom, then it does. Especially if your mom went by Dora.
If my mom told me she'd chosen my name in honor of her mother, I wouldn't care much if it didn't mean the same or sound exactly the same. All that would matter would be that my mom meant for it to honor my grandmother.
- chazda
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Pronunciation of Dara ...
With a Celtic accent, there isn't that choice between a long "ah" sound and a short "a" one: DA-ra is just that. (Accents are so difficult to explain!) With a US accent, you could render it as either ... I imagine people would just go by however they say Sara, Lara, Tara and Mara, and keep on rhyming ;-)
With a Celtic accent, there isn't that choice between a long "ah" sound and a short "a" one: DA-ra is just that. (Accents are so difficult to explain!) With a US accent, you could render it as either ... I imagine people would just go by however they say Sara, Lara, Tara and Mara, and keep on rhyming ;-)
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