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HelpRe: If you had a difficult-to-pronounce name...
in reply to a message by Theodora'sMommy
My name is Mara (MAHR-uh), and typically, people will ask if they pronounced it correctly, giving me an opportunity to correct them without being rude about it. If they don't ask, I usually don't correct them, and then it leads to situations such as when one of my teachers referred to me as MY-ruh for an entire semester until his wife (also one of my teachers) corrected him...
Since I moved to the South, I've noticed people usually guess pronunciation correctly down here, as opposed to the MA (as in map or mat)-ruh and MEHR-uh of the Northeast.
Since I moved to the South, I've noticed people usually guess pronunciation correctly down here, as opposed to the MA (as in map or mat)-ruh and MEHR-uh of the Northeast.
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My niece's name is Mara, pronounced with what you call the "map or mat" pronunciation. However, my stepmother persisted in pronouncing it MAHR-uh. When my niece was a baby, my sister (Mara's mother) said she didn't mind our stepmother pronouncing it that way. She said the pronunciation didn't bother her. So I said I would pronounce it MAHR-uh. This was during a week-long trip that my sister, Mara, my two kids, and I were taking together. But after one day of hearing me say "MAHR-uh", my sister told me to stop, lol. I've never pronounced it that way since.
Anyway, I don't think that any of these pronunciations are correct or incorrect.
Anyway, I don't think that any of these pronunciations are correct or incorrect.
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