How do you pronounce Dahlia?

[ShutUpAlex]

Family are feuding

Daaah-lia yanbu
Day-lia yabu

DAR-lee-a

@PeggySueOooOo

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

Plant: Day-lia
Name: Dar-lia

The only person whose name it is that I know is spelled Dalia (and pronounced as you say).

Day- lea
Sounds nicer imo, less pretentious

DAY-lee-uh

Never hear any other way.

Daar li ahh

Daa-lia but I am not particularly great in pronunciation of stuff😂

Day lia... That is how most of the TV gardeners pronounce it.

@PeggySueOooOo

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

Plant: Day-lia
Name: Dar-lia

Same

It’s pronounced day-lia.

I've always said Day-lee-uh and have only ever heard it pronounced that way.

I've only ever known it as the name of a flower.
I didn't know that it could be a girl's name until I read this thread.

Name: dar lee uh
Plant: day lee uh

"ErrolTheDragon
How about Thalia? (Nicer flower too.)
Doesn't this sound a bit like failure? Haha don't name a child that!"

@Namechangedlady no it's pronounced Tar lee yah

I'm not sure it helps with the pronunciation, but the flower name has a different derivation from the Hebrew/Arabic name (according to Wikipedia)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalia_(given_name)

The only Dahlia I've met pronounced it Daaah-lia (although if said with a northern accent, Dall-ia)

I think I'd say Day...Lee....ahhh

I'd say don't saddle a child with a name everyone will pronounce differently than you.

@Selford

I'm not sure it helps with the pronunciation, but the flower name has a different derivation from the Hebrew/Arabic name (according to Wikipedia) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalia_(given_name)

The only Dahlia I've met pronounced it Daaah-lia (although if said with a northern accent, Dall-ia)

I'd probably pronounce Dalia as dahhlia. Putting the h in makes it the flower name.

Day lia like the plant of course. Or maybe you could substitute it with Poppy and be confused when everyone refuses to pronounce it Pop Eye

Dar-lia

But I heard it on the originals and the aunt there is a Dar-lia.

I don’t like the day-lia pronunciation

Day-lia

@Namechangedlady

Thalia is pronounced Tar-lia, not Tay-lia

I know a woman called this - pronounced Dar-lia (also spelt Dalia and she's Jewish too if that helps).

I'd pronounce the flower differently.

In the US, Dahlia is a variant spelling of Dalia and Darlia/Darla/Darlene, and pronounced accordingly. All relatively common names.

Here, it is the flower name day-lia, and pronounced like the plant. Fairly uncommon name. So it is no surprise that the US pronunciation is the one you have heard most often.

@PeggySueOooOo

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

Plant: Day-lia
Name: Dar-lia

which is why its a bad name to give a child; they'll spend their entire life correcting people who pronounce their name like the flower.

It’s a middle name, so not the end of the world but it has meaning to us so not going to change it. Was just wondering how common the daylia pronunciation was.

In Egypt/ME as a name it is DAAR-lee-ah - so you could pronounce it like that. Or Day-lee-ah like the plant in England.

Day-lee-ah be easier in UK