To tell my friend she is pronouncing her (future) DD's name wrong?

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More of a what would you do but friend is due next month and she has the name picked out.

It's a nice name but here's the thing, it's not a common name and the way she is pronouncing it is wrong.

Would you tell her?

I knew of someone who called their daughter Lauren but pronounced it LAW-ren. Like the beginning of Laura. Why did no-one tell them? Or maybe they knew but didn't care? That poor girl, doomed to experience name confusion mix-ups and puzzled looks for the rest of her life. I have a (slightly) unusual name so can empathise, it's not fun, especially at school when all you want to do is fit in.

Why are so many people putting an R in their pronunciation? Like darn your socks-I'm in N.Ireland so this seems very odd to me Dana definitely does not have an R sound in it to me!

Riffy How do you pronounce Lauren?

Another request for your pronunciation of Lauren, Riffy am totally flummoxed as to how else it can be pronounced!
I have only ever known LAWrens.

LOH ren

The OH bring the same sound as opposite

Thanks, Dame never heard it pronounced like that before. One lives and learns.

Being not bring, bloody phone

IME Lauren is Lorren as in Laurel. I've never heard it pronounced LAWren as in Law

Yes Lorren is a better way of describing it, I've never head of LAWren.

Lauren in the US will depend a lot on one's accent. So you will have Lorren, Lawren, and Lahren. I think I say something between Lorren and Lawren.

Yes Lorren to rhyme with sporran. I thought that was how everyone said it! Never heard of another pronunciation, apart from how some people say Ralph Lauren (Lu-REN).

There's another thread going about whether "fart" is a swear word (OP was told off by Ofsted for allowing a secondary school student to use it in an essay).

I just realized from this thread that most of the people on that thread (this one too maybe) would be pronouncing it faht. Makes it sound almost elegant.

Ralph Lu-REN is so wrong!

Oh I know Scone. I used to pronounce it that way myself until he had a cameo in Friends and that wasn't how Rachel said it

The singer Dana was most definitely pronounced as Darna,particularly by TV presenters, back in the day. It's all very well arguing that there is no ' r' but that is how it was said on the BBC.

Now, on to Ciara...I knew a girl when I was at junior school with this spelling, and she pronounced it Char-a.

Finally.......I remember Isla St.Clair on The Generation Game, and it was pronounced "Isle-a", also, there is Isla Blair.

I know a child with the same spelling but who is called "Ize-la"...seriously.

The singer Dana was most definitely pronounced as Darna,particularly by TV presenters, back in the day. It's all very well arguing that there is no ' r' but that is how it was said on the BBC.

Ummmm, does the BBC's pronunciation trump her own pronunciation of the name? Because she's from Derry and she doesn't pronounce it Darna.

Well it's said Dana not Darna when they mention her on BBC NI. She's been featured in a few stories recently.

I wouldn't really trust BBC on correct local pronouncations - Fermanagh seems to cause quite a kerfuffle.

I didn't say it was right, just that it was definitely pronounced that way, particularly by TV presenters, Terry Wogan excepted .

I personally like the Dayna pronunciation, as a watcher of the X- Files.

I knew it'd be Dana, it's becoming popular now. The American way is Dayna. The Irish and Persian way is Darna/Dahna. This was done a few weeks ago too.

My sister is a Dana and I had a friend named Dayna, this caused all amounts of confusion to my teachers

I would pronounce it Day-na, being a big Ghostbusters and X-Files fan

I say the first syllable of the names Laura and Lauren exactly the same way. Shrug.

Richard Henry Dana was a 19th-century American who wrote a book called Two Years Before the Mast. His last name is pronounced Dayna (at least, that is the only pronunciation I have ever heard).

I'm sure I read that they're remaking Ghostbusters (why?!) and that it will star Gillian Anderson. That will mean she'll have played two famous Danas.

Sorry, posted too soon. I mentioned Richard Henry Dana to bolster the notion that the Dayna pronunciation is neither new nor wrong.

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