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How do you pronounce Dahlia?

108 replies

ShutUpAlex · 23/05/2021 16:07

Family are feuding Grin

Daaah-lia yanbu
Day-lia yabu

OP posts:
Sideofnoreturn · 23/05/2021 16:10

Dayliah, like the plants

BrownEyedGirl80 · 23/05/2021 16:10

Daar lia

fantasmasgoria1 · 23/05/2021 16:11

Day Lee er

SoupDragon · 23/05/2021 16:11

Day lia

Chunkymenrock · 23/05/2021 16:11

Day lia

wanderedlonelyasacloud · 23/05/2021 16:12

I think in the uk its day-lia and in the US it is daaah-lia

ErrolTheDragon · 23/05/2021 16:12

Daylia, of course - I've never heard dahlias pronounced any other way in decades of listening to gardeners question time. Confused

BeyondMyWits · 23/05/2021 16:12

Day Lee ah

myhobbyisouting · 23/05/2021 16:12

Dar lee ya

Mammabear23 · 23/05/2021 16:13

I thought it was Dar-lee-ah. But could be wrong.

Foxhasbigsocks · 23/05/2021 16:13

Day lee uh

CandyLeBonBon · 23/05/2021 16:13

Day-lia

isseys4xmastinselcats · 23/05/2021 16:13

day lia

OverByYer · 23/05/2021 16:14

Dar leeyarr

TheRavenNevermore · 23/05/2021 16:14

You seem to be prescribing how people should vote when it would do just as well to just, you know, ask the question. This would work just fine given that there are only two options. Confused

TwoAndAnOnion · 23/05/2021 16:14

Day lee ah

HannaHat · 23/05/2021 16:14

Dar Leah

Galliano · 23/05/2021 16:17

As a female name I know one in the north of England - in her 40s and pronounced daaahlia.

The retro municipal flower enjoying a resurgence the last few years is a daylia.

VaccineMcQueen · 23/05/2021 16:17

Dahhh lia

PeggySueOooOo · 23/05/2021 16:17

I might be odd but I pronounce the word two different ways:

Plant: Day-lia
Name: Dar-lia

tentosix · 23/05/2021 16:18

Flower it's day-lia, name of a person it's dar-lia

MasterBeth · 23/05/2021 16:18

Day-liah = British English
Daah-liah = US English

ShutUpAlex · 23/05/2021 16:19

Yea it’s for a name, sorry should have put that in the OP!

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MrsTerryPratchett · 23/05/2021 16:19

Mum does the first, I do the second. North/South split.

Crockof · 23/05/2021 16:21

@PeggySueOooOo

I might be odd but I pronounce the word two different ways:

Plant: Day-lia
Name: Dar-lia

So do I.
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