How do you pronounce Vera?

[lucymegan]

Love the this name, it was my great grandmothers name but ive heard it pronounced a couple of different ways.

V-ear-a
V-air-a

How do you pronounce it?

Do the people writing ‘vee-ra’ mean that? They think it rhymes with ‘bee-ra’? Or do they mean ‘veer-ah’?
I’ve only ever heard it said ‘veer-ah’ incl. that character on coronation st.

Oh it is a bit more complex than I first thought. Even the ‘ear’ can produce eg veer- ah (as in to veer) or vee-er-ah (kind of three syllables) or vir-ah (as in revere - kind of softer/shorter veer-ah). I’m vir-ah although the word has lost all meaning as I’ve said it typing this !!

Rhymes with Ear

Vera is pronounced Ver-a like Ver-y or Ver-ity or Ver-onica.

There is no ea in Vera. It's simple Ver ah!

Vee-ra

I've only ever heard it pronounced Ver-a

Often a nickname for Veronica. And that's pronounced Ver onica and not Veer onica

I don’t think I’ve ever heard Vera as in verity katfood. Now trying a variety of accents where that might be right. Are you in Australia ? Think this is the closest I can get?

Wow! Nor have I ever known it to be anything other than a name in its own right - have never known it as short for Veronica. This is an eye opening thread !

Ear. Never heard the air pronunciation...

Veer ah

L-aur-a Fantacci pronounces it V-air-a

Vera is pronounced as it's written Ver-a.

Very, Verity, Veronica, Vera.

Bit of a resurrection?

In which accent is Ver pronounced anything else than Ver/Vair?!

Like dear, it's vear.

Vera. Vaira is a bit up yourself and wrong.

I'm in the UK and have only ever heard it pronounced as Ver-a. Never Veer-a

How does Ver become Veer?

I'm in the UK and have only ever heard it pronounced as Ver-a. Never Veer-a

Equally, I'm in the U.K. and have only ever heard it pronounced Veer-a 😂

Like dear, it's vear.

Yes, to rhyme with dear-a is the only way I've ever heard it pronounced. (Which is the same as veer-a in my accent)

Good lord, this is from May and I've already commented back then!!

Those saying Vee ra, do you also pronounce Veronica and Verity as Vee ronica and Vee rity? And Very as Vee ry

“ How does Ver become Veer?”

How does the “Sar” part of “Sarah” come to rhyme with “air” and not “a” as in apple? Because English pronunciation is varied. Surely you must be used to that?

No Poppydaisys, I’m sure people don’t. I’m sure you can manage all the variations in pronunciation of the combination of letters “ough” can’t you?

kat agree it’s odd particularly when it comes from root denoting ‘truth’. I’m in London and have never heard it said any way other than veer-ah. Other than I think Vera Chang? And aloe Vera (which as a Latin plant name kind of explains for me why it is a different pronunciation?). Not for a moment suggesting verh-a is somehow ‘wrong’(as if it could be) just thinking all vera’s from duckworth down (or up) and a few I’ve known have 99% only known veer-ah.
Beginning to like it more the more I think about it

Wouldn’t your example also indicate that we should take from Katherine that Kate is kat?

Nearer Vera

Definitely a comeback, have met a few under the age of 2 recently. Not a fan I have to say