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How to pronounce Talia

338 replies

GemLooper · 06/10/2021 20:50

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

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TwinsandTrifle · 07/10/2021 07:51

You can’t take away an accent and have a neutral/pure pronunciation

Well of course you can. Like the phonetic bit you get after each word in the dictionary. Where it goes:

Blah blah. Verb/noun. "Blaar Blaar"

That thing Grin

Blubells · 07/10/2021 07:51

It’s because most folk don’t know the IPA symbol for what they’re trying to get across (in this case ɑː)

Maybe we should all learn them!

T ɑ:lia

That makes more sense than adding an R!

TwinsandTrifle · 07/10/2021 07:47

Everybody has an accent! There isn't one standard or default accent around which everyone else varies you know.

What accent(s) do the following have? Because it seems that people are just adding a location (eg London) to imply there's some sort of accent, when they mean "cockney" which does not apply to most Londoners.

Piers Morgan
Simon Cowell
Kate Middleton
Freddie Mercury

(I know a bizarre mix, but trying to pick nationally famous people who's voices are easy to repeat in your head)

JassyRadlett · 07/10/2021 07:45

Yes, Barley in an Irish accent, doesn't sound like Bali. It's because it's in an Irish accent!!! Remove the accent. Irish, Glaswegian, or whichever. Now how do you say it.

I imagine you would be totally silent, as there is no such thing as ‘no accent’.

You can’t take away an accent and have a neutral/pure pronunciation. You’re adopting a different accent.

JassyRadlett · 07/10/2021 07:42

Why are people adding an R?

Because. That. Is. How. They. Approximate. That. Sound. In. Their. Accent.

Which has been covered extensively on the thread.

It’s because most folk don’t know the IPA symbol for what they’re trying to get across (in this case ɑː)

minatrina · 07/10/2021 07:41

These threads always descend into this, but it's really quite simple

No one is "adding" an R. In most non-rhotic accents, Barley and Bali sound exactly the same. So writing it as Tar-Lee-A comes as the natural way to spell how they might pronounce it.

And for everyone else refusing to understand how rhotic accents work, people who pronounce Barley and Bali different aren't pronouncing it "wrong", there's no 'neutral' or 'correct' accent which they would default to if they somehow "removed" their accent.

I'm really struggling to understand the confusion🤣

For OP's original question, the only Talia I've ever known pronounced it TAR-Lee-a, said in a non-rhotic northern accent. Lovely name!

LizzieAnt · 07/10/2021 07:41

Yes, Barley in an Irish accent, doesn't sound like Bali. It's because it's in an Irish accent!!! Remove the accent. Irish, Glaswegian, or whichever. Now how do you say it.

Everybody has an accent! There isn't one standard or default accent around which everyone else varies you know.

Blubells · 07/10/2021 07:23

And Bali (Bah-lee) and Barley (Bar-lee) sound very different.

TwinsandTrifle · 07/10/2021 07:23

Imagine ‘barley’ said in an Irish accent. It really doesn’t sound like Bali.

Christing Christ. Facepalm at some of these comments. Please go on the basic foundation that most of us have left our twee villages and seen the sights of the town next door Hmm

Yes, Barley in an Irish accent, doesn't sound like Bali. It's because it's in an Irish accent!!! Remove the accent. Irish, Glaswegian, or whichever. Now how do you say it.

Blubells · 07/10/2021 07:21

Why are people adding an R?

Talia is pronounced like Italia without the I.

minatrina · 07/10/2021 07:07

@StrychnineInTheSandwiches

Take Trevor McDonald. What accent does he have? Or Susanna Reid. I see them as no accent.

Oh come on. If Trev or Suse went to Louisiana or to Sydney do you think the locals might perceive them as having an accent?

It's such a strange thing where some people from the SE England think it's only everyone else who has an accent.

Exactly!! 🤣 also such smugness from someone demonstrating a very obvious lack of knowledge on the history of accents and the English language
Geamhradh · 07/10/2021 06:19

@StrychnineInTheSandwiches

Bali and barley sound exactly the same in certain accents.

Some of you need to leave your home village once in a while. There are different accents lurking beyond them there hills.

Doooooon't. I'm imagining a whole group of Mumsnetters living like those scary placdz in films like the one with the banjo player where some poor fucker from 4 miles down the road breaks down and gets proper murdered because he pronounces "barley" differently. Grin Leave them where they are. Safer that way. (for everyone else-i mean, I don't want to be anywhere that gene pool)
EmmaGrundyForPM · 07/10/2021 05:00

@Balonzette

Tal-ee-uh.

It wouldn't be Tar-lee-uh unless spelt differently.

How would you pronounce Bali or Mali? To me, Talia is the same pronunciation with an "ah" on the. end.
LoveGrooveDanceParty · 07/10/2021 04:51

@Balonzette

Barley and Bali are pronounced the same. If anyone is saying either differently then they're just wrong 😂
Imagine ‘barley’ said in an Irish accent. It really doesn’t sound like Bali.

Are you saying they’re pronouncing it wrong?

Have someone of your never watched TV….? Confused

LoveGrooveDanceParty · 07/10/2021 04:50

@BluebellsareBlue

Where is the R coming from????? It's tah Lee ah. Wtf is going on with people adding an R????
It’s not that confusing - I pronounce ‘tar’ exactly the same way I pronounce ‘tah’. Many, many people with non-rhotic accents do.

Bar, car, star - all pronounced like ‘la’ in my (Kiwi) accent. Most people with London, Home Counties, etc accents would also pronounce these words the same way.

Balonzette · 07/10/2021 04:34

Barley and Bali are pronounced the same. If anyone is saying either differently then they're just wrong 😂

Balonzette · 07/10/2021 04:32

Tal-ee-uh.

It wouldn't be Tar-lee-uh unless spelt differently.

careerchangeperhaps · 07/10/2021 01:01

Tally-a

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 07/10/2021 00:58

For some Scottish people poor pour and paw all sound different

So funny,they all sound the same to me, I can't get them to sound different 😂

Tah lee ah

LizzieAnt · 07/10/2021 00:50

@CiaoForNiao

Lala and la (the note) sound the same Confused
I think I should have spelt it Laa-Laa actually... Anyway, they don't to me. Just watched some Teletubbies on YouTube to check Grin
KloppsTeeth · 07/10/2021 00:22

I know a Talia. She is Tah-Lee-ah but she gets the nickname Jenny from Genitalia a lot at school so she hates her name. I know geniTalia and tah-Lee-ah don’t sound the same, but these are young teens and think they are oh so hilarious.

CiaoForNiao · 07/10/2021 00:20

Lala and la (the note) sound the same Confused

CiaoForNiao · 07/10/2021 00:16

@JassyRadlett

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.)

Same for me.
CorianderAndCream · 07/10/2021 00:08

@SunsetOverEasterIsland

It probably depends if you are from the North or the South. In the North it would be Tal ee a ( a as in Apple) but in the South, probably Tar lee ah. It's a bit like Bath or Baarth 😁
Nope I'm northern and it's still a long a
CorianderAndCream · 07/10/2021 00:07

@OhLordyWhatNow

There's no R in Bali 😵‍💫 if there was it would be the same as barley.
They're both pronounced the same in my accent