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?

It doesn’t surprise me at all that there are variations in the pronunciation of Vera, though I have only heard the “Veera” version myself. After all there are some Karens who pronounce it so that the “Kar” part rhymes with “air”

You’re going to spend an awfully long time in the uk correcting any pronunciation other than Veer ah as in Duckworth.

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

How do you pronounce tear? Do you pronounce it "teer" or "tare" or both...?

soup if I said yes would you be angry ? I
Am so tempted.
Good point but see Katherine/Kate
Marcia/Mary/marianne
Mila/millicent
(Feel I am clutching at straws here).

In a Norfolk accent, the two versions of “tear” are pronounced very similarly, but not in mine

soup if I said yes would you be angry ?

To what?

How do you pronounce tear? Do you pronounce it "teer" or "tare" or both...?

Both. To tear up something. And the teardrops or tears.

Rhymes with ear

To rhyme with air, but the only one I know is Russian.

Both

So why are you surprised that people are pronouncing the start of Vera and Verity differently?

soup Apols - you were quoting someone else. My post to you made no sense as result.

Depends where you live and who you know. t's currently a trendy name in Spain where it's pronounced somewhere between Vair-a and Veh-ra, never Veer-a. In the original Russian there's a definite 'y' sound in the middle. So many famous ones over there.
In the UK almost everyone will say Veer-a with quite a long drawl, rhyming with nearer or dearer. Possibly very young people wouldn't know the name as it was last popular amongst women born in the 1910s and 1920s, so they might guess at Veh-ra.

We had a German exchange student once who was Vera pronounced Vaira.

I know a Vera whose full name is Veronica. Both pronounced Ver-a and Ver-onica. And yes, Verity.

Well yes if you were shortening Veronica it would make sense that it follows the same pronunciation. Doesn’t stop the “Veera” being extremely common in the UK

Doesn't Vera Chang pronounce it Ver a? And also the plant Aloe Ver a?!

I'm therefore really surprised that some pronounce it Veera.

I will blow your mind by telling you that some people pronounce aloe vera “aloe veera”

Ver ra

Fuck ive no glasses on. I meant to type vee ra

Veer-Ra

V-ear-a is how it’s pronounced. Surely just because some people choose to pronounce it differently doesn’t mean it has several pronunciations, just means they’re saying it wrong. If I started pronouncing Emily like Ee-mee-lie it wouldn’t mean Emily has two pronunciations, it would just mean that I’d got mine wrong.

The name is originally Russian, meaning "faith", and is pronounced in its native tongue something like VYAIR-ah, with a touch of a rolled "r". It became popular in the West around the turn of the 20th century and, though spelled Vera in English, was commonly pronounced VEER-uh in both the US and UK. This phonetic disconnect has fallen by the wayside in recent times, however. The default international pronunciation VAIR-uh has rapidly gained prominence, lending this once dated name fresh elegance, strength, and sophistication.

My sister in law is Vera but we pronounce it vaira