North/south divide - girls names pronounced dramatically differently?

[Stulbam]

Like Sandra, Alexandra - they'd be pronounced with a 'sand' sound up north, but a 'sarrnd' sound down south. Not just a subtle difference in emphasis - a black and white divide.

I've spent the last month straining my brain in disbelief that I can't think of a single other example for girls (I've come up with Grant/ 'Grarrnt' for boys). My husband claims there's no other examples (exarrmples!) - surely this can't be?!

Help me prove him wrong Mumsnet?!

@CappuccinoCake However I say farmers and pyjamas (southern) they rhyme

Try saying Farmers with a Scottish (or Devon) accent where the 'a' and the 'r' and pronounced separately, and to you it no doubt sounds like a rolled 'r'.

Are you old enough to remember Taggart? "TheRe's been a muRdeR".

Julia Donaldson is particularly galling since she has (or does?) live in Scotland.

The thing that always drives me crazy is when people write "ansaphone".

I've lived in England long enough that I speak with a non-rhotic accent now, but my brain still registers the difference and although when I say "raw" and "roar" they sound the same, my mind has them in completely different sound categories.

A few people have mentioned Tanya...

I thought
Tanya= Tan-ya
And
Tania= Tarn-ya/ Tarn-yuh

This is what my mother who is a Tania always says is correct?

South -

Sophie = So-fee

North -

Sophie = Saw-feh

I knew an american lady called Don once which was odd. One day I asked if her full name was Donna. She looked at me strange and said 'No just Don' a little while later she gave me a Christmas card signed 'Dawn'!! I had never seen her name written down before!

I'm in Scotland we can't pronounce Carl - it comes out Carol. Must be our rolling rrrrrrrrrr's

Yes. The problem is that it’s based in the assumption that you speak with a particular accent.

It’s funny until you realise the putting saw and sore in an exam systematically discriminates against people from certain parts of the country. Or when you build your whole phonics system in the assumption that everyone speaks RP. Or when your English teacher has no idea (and refuses to accept) that actually they’re only homonyms for some people.

Tanya's always Tanya, isn't it? Never Tarnya? (Unlike Alexandra, Francis etc.) Like Natasha - that would never be Natarsha.

Ahh love mumsnet! Knew you guys would care!

Hetero, nope, I know a 'Tarrnya', actually two - one from the south, the other American!