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I am Lora, have been for 60+ years. It always get pronounced correctly L-or-ah but never spelled correctly even when I say it phonetically as it is spelled. It's because most don't know Laura from Lora as far as pronunciation. What annoys me more is those who call me Lori. It's never been my name and it often feels condescending or overly friendly like "oh honey" which annoys me when it's a stranger. I am named after a woman from the south, Newport News, Virginia to be exact.
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Pronounced LAH-w-rah in Polish.
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I like this name, but my problem with this name is the two subtly different pronunciations. I think LAW-ra sounds prettier than LOR-ra, but it would be a pain for Laura to always be correcting people to what she prefers.
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Oh my gosh in Spanish class it's so weird... my Spanish name is Laura, but it sounds really weird like Low-rah or something like that. I'm not used to it yet.
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I love this name, probably because it's mine. However, thanks to it being more uncommon recently and being in the South, people like to pronounce it LAW-RA or just call me Lauren.
Personally, I think the AW or OW sound is very unattractive and don't like it when people use that pronunciation. I prefer LOR-A, and I like it when people use my actual name instead of Lauren, like people are so prone to do, since it is a very common name where I am.
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Personally, I think the AW or OW sound is very unattractive and don't like it when people use that pronunciation. I prefer LOR-A, and I like it when people use my actual name instead of Lauren, like people are so prone to do, since it is a very common name where I am.
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Portuguese: L-ə-UW-R-ə.
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My name is Laura and I love it. Pronunciation is L-au-ra like cl-ou-d not Lowra or whatever, please, it is way better this way. I have lots of friends who don't like their names, and I'm very thankful to my dad for choosing this one for me and it has an awesome story: Laura was my father's first word and he didn't knew any Laura when he was a baby *-*
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Oh, and my name is pronounced Lora, not Lara. I hate when people say my name that way.
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Czech and Slovak pronunciation is "LOW-rah".
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My name is Laura pronounced LAW-ra, which I think is lovely, as is the common pronunciation LO-ra. I have found that in the western states it is more common to pronounce it the way I do where LO-ra is more common in the eastern states. My husband's sister is named Lara (LAW-ra) which is the spelling used in Russia. The meaning of this spelling is derived from Saint Larisa from Russia and not from the Laurel crown of ancient Rome. I absolutely love my name and recently had the honor of my cousin naming her darling little girl "Laura" after me. It is not as common now as it used to be, but may be one of those lovely classic names that makes a big comeback. If you do name your child Laura, do her a service on deciding how to pronounce it and don't let others get away with saying it wrong or mistaking it for one of the many variations that exist, for example, Lori, Laurie, Lora, etc. And make sure she reads the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. She is a Laura anyone would be proud to share a name with.
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It has been my observation that Laura is pronounced Law-ra or Lah-ra in the southern states, and Lor-a in the northern states.
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Popular name in Germany, the -au in it is pronounced like the -ou in "cloudy".
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