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HelpHave you ever heard this CLARA pronunciation?
The Hanks & Hodges book on first names gives Clarrie as the English diminutive of Clara.
This seems to tie in with a 60-odd neighbour's insistence that the proper pronunciation of Clara is neither clair-uh or clah-ruh but CLAR-uh, i.e. with the first syllable like the first syllable of Clarence or rhyming with that of Marion.
I don't like that pronunciation but wonder whether anyone here agrees with my neighbour or has ever heard Clara pronounced like that.
This seems to tie in with a 60-odd neighbour's insistence that the proper pronunciation of Clara is neither clair-uh or clah-ruh but CLAR-uh, i.e. with the first syllable like the first syllable of Clarence or rhyming with that of Marion.
I don't like that pronunciation but wonder whether anyone here agrees with my neighbour or has ever heard Clara pronounced like that.
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