Page 11 | How to pronounce Talia

GemLooper · 2021-10-06T19:50:33+00:00

Would you say Tah-lee-uh or tar-lee-uh?

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HeronLanyon · 06/10/2021 22:11

@TwinsandTrifle

Tall to rhyme with shall

Just reading this has finished me.

‘Tal to rhyme with shall’ - that rogue extra (?) l floored me too. But you know what this post by bubble was the break through where I understood the op ! So it could be ta (as in (tacky)! Have never heard it pronounced that way.

JassyRadlett · 06/10/2021 22:09

Tah Lee uh, where the ‘tah’ rhymes with ‘lah’ the exact way Julie Andrews pronounces it in ‘la, a note to follow soh’ in The Sound of Music.

(Which is also the same as tar in my non-rhotic accent, and rhymes with baa, car, far, and the first syllables of Bali and barley.)

SionnachRua · 06/10/2021 22:08

@TwinsandTrifle

Pour and poor are the same.

Baffled. Just baffled.

If you're saying it with an accent, you're not saying.it in the raw form if you see what I mean. Take Trevor McDonald. What accent does he have? Or Susanna Reid. I see them as no accent.

Ah would you go away outta that

Everyone here is saying these words in their own accent, there is no raw or correct form to default to.

MrsRobbieHart · 06/10/2021 22:08

Raw form. 😂

MrsRobbieHart · 06/10/2021 22:08

@TwinsandTrifle

Pour and poor are the same.

Baffled. Just baffled.

If you're saying it with an accent, you're not saying.it in the raw form if you see what I mean. Take Trevor McDonald. What accent does he have? Or Susanna Reid. I see them as no accent.

😂

“If you’re saying it with an accent”

Everyone has an accent!

Rummikubfan · 06/10/2021 22:06

Extremely common name here, at least 2 or 3 in a class and it’s always Ta-Lee-a

minatrina · 06/10/2021 22:02

@TwinsandTrifle

Pour and poor are the same.

Baffled. Just baffled.

If you're saying it with an accent, you're not saying.it in the raw form if you see what I mean. Take Trevor McDonald. What accent does he have? Or Susanna Reid. I see them as no accent.

I mean it's quite obvious that everyone has an accent, whether you decide to "see" it as an accent or not.

TwinsandTrifle · 06/10/2021 22:00

Tall to rhyme with shall

Just reading this has finished me.

TwinsandTrifle · 06/10/2021 21:58

Pour and poor are the same.

Baffled. Just baffled.

If you're saying it with an accent, you're not saying.it in the raw form if you see what I mean. Take Trevor McDonald. What accent does he have? Or Susanna Reid. I see them as no accent.

MrsRobbieHart · 06/10/2021 21:57

I thought DH was just weird when he went on about "pooring" milk in the tea. "Poh-errrrr" "Yes, that's what I said, poor". "No, poh-err" "yes, poor".

my dad poors the milk too. He also shuts the door, washes the floor and calls his brothers hures, all to rhyme with poor.

BubbleCoffee · 06/10/2021 21:53

Tall to rhyme with shall, for both Natalia and Talia.

tiredanddangerous · 06/10/2021 21:49

The one I know is Tar-lee-uh

HeronLanyon · 06/10/2021 21:48

Ta (as in thanks) - Lee - ah.
I’d put the stress in the ta.

powershowerforanhour · 06/10/2021 21:47

I’m in NI I was furious with my sons primary school teacher for marking him wrong on a homework. He had to circle the homophones. One of the options was poor and pour. DS didn’t circle them. Because they don’t sound the same. He was marked wrong. Stupid teacher clearly printed something off an English teaching website and didn’t even bother to check what the words were when he was marking it.

I thought DH was just weird when he went on about "pooring" milk in the tea. "Poh-errrrr" "Yes, that's what I said, poor". "No, poh-err" "yes, poor".

HollyandIvyandAllThingsYule · 06/10/2021 21:46

Oh and I was referring to the long sound with the ‘ah’ thing.

HollyandIvyandAllThingsYule · 06/10/2021 21:45

@Plotato

The sound is ‘ah’. That is how you spell it phonetically.

What sound is ah? Long a like in the English English pronunciation of Bali, or short a like in the word English English or Scottish English pronunciation of clap? There is no such thing as correctly 'spelling something phonetically'; that is why the International Phonetic Alphabet exists.

Yes, that is why the phonetic alphabet exists. My point was very muddled tbf, because this recurring argument people have on here drives me crazy.

God I wish more people knew how to use it...

LizzieAnt · 06/10/2021 21:44

@HollyandIvyandAllThingsYule

Oh god this comes up every single time...

The sound is ‘ah’. That is how you spell it phonetically.

Doesn’t matter if you pronounce ‘car’ as ‘cah’...you don’t spell the sound that way.

It’s a lovely name but this is just going to turn into yet another heated discussion.

FWIW I like it pronounced both ways (short or long ‘a’).

The plot thickens and I'm more confused now

JaninaDuszejko · 06/10/2021 21:43

@TwinsandTrifle

You don't say Bali as "barley?"

Bah-LEE vs BERR-lee

Not only that, farmers and pyjamas don't rhyme either (FERR-merrs and pi-JEM-ahs in my northern Scottish accent).

I have no idea what tbe difference between the OPs two pronounciations are even knowing 'ar' is suppose to be a long 'a'. DS is at school with a TA-lee-ah but she's a bit of a madam so I'd avoid the name.

Plotato · 06/10/2021 21:42

The sound is ‘ah’. That is how you spell it phonetically.

What sound is ah? Long a like in the English English pronunciation of Bali, or short a like in the word English English or Scottish English pronunciation of clap? There is no such thing as correctly 'spelling something phonetically'; that is why the International Phonetic Alphabet exists.

Crackletranton · 06/10/2021 21:40

I've taught two

Ta (short a)- lee - a (short a) except one had the first syllable emphasised and the other had the second syllable emphasised

SionnachRua · 06/10/2021 21:40

@MrsRobbieHart

I'm sitting here repeating pour, paw and poor and cannot for the life of me get them to sound the same! Accents are so funny.

I have figured out how to make paw and pour sound the same... I think. Poor is still stubbornly refusing to be a homophone

MrsRobbieHart · 06/10/2021 21:37

I'm sitting here repeating pour, paw and poor and cannot for the life of me get them to sound the same! Accents are so funny.

HollyandIvyandAllThingsYule · 06/10/2021 21:31

Oh god this comes up every single time...

The sound is ‘ah’. That is how you spell it phonetically.

Doesn’t matter if you pronounce ‘car’ as ‘cah’...you don’t spell the sound that way.

It’s a lovely name but this is just going to turn into yet another heated discussion.

FWIW I like it pronounced both ways (short or long ‘a’).

OhLordyWhatNow · 06/10/2021 21:31

Anyway lovely name.

BakingOfTheFoodCats · 06/10/2021 21:30

There’s one in my daughters school pronounced tar lee ah