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Help[Opinions] How do you say Dahlia?
I was chatting to someone today and she mentioned her prize-winning dahlias, and to my surprise she pronounced it "DAY-lee-ah". I never knew this alternate pronunciation existed!
How do YOU pronounce Dahlia? And which do you prefer, DAH-lee-ah or DAY-lee-ah?
How do YOU pronounce Dahlia? And which do you prefer, DAH-lee-ah or DAY-lee-ah?
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Where I live, in English they are daylias and in Afrikaans they are dahlias. So, I think of them as DAY- because I mostly speak English. I've never heard DAHleeah used in English at all. Is this a Canadian or a UK question?
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DAY-lee-a is the British pronunciation.
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DAH-lee-ah I don’t care (And never even heard) of the second pronunciation.
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DAL-lee-a or DAH-lee-a - never heard DAY-lee-a before, but it's pretty!
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I normally pronounced Dahlia, DOLL- LEE- UH/ DAH-lee uh. My mom says DAY-lee-uh. I starting saying that too.
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DAH-lee-ah!
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"DAH-lee-uh"
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DAHL-yə. I definitely prefer the "dah" sound to the "day" sound
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