How to pronounce Talia

[GemLooper]

Would you say Tah-lee-uh or tar-lee-uh?

Bali in a Scottish accent has a short a, same as in the word clap. Comments like it's baaa like a sheep don't help because Scottish people pronounce baa differently to English folk (whether Northern or Southern generally).

I'd pronounce Talia with a short a like in clap. Just like I pronounce Tara, Clara etc. English people almost exclusively pronounce these with a long a.

But they way you'd written (and therefore pronounce?) "grah-s" does.

I would pronounce Talia Tahhh-lia, but dahlia day-lia

Tar Lee Uh

Mars and cars sounds the same as bars.

"Bali in a Scottish accent has a short a, same as in the word clap*

Like the "ball" in ballet, so "ball-ee"

Well I never.

Ta-lee-a

For some Scottish people poor pour and paw all sound different.

I’m in NI I was furious with my sons primary school teacher for marking him wrong on a homework. He had to circle the homophones. One of the options was poor and pour. DS didn’t circle them. Because they don’t sound the same. He was marked wrong. Stupid teacher clearly printed something off an English teaching website and didn’t even bother to check what the words were when he was marking it.

Tal-yah

@TwinsandTrifle

But they way you'd written (and therefore pronounce?) "grah-s" does.

No, the way you interpret that phonetic spelling of grass rhymes with bars/Mars. I'd also phonetically write grass as grah-ss and grass rhymes with ass, Mass, crass

Not all southerners speak RP. Who'da thunk it.

South does not equal South East/ Home Counties.

@MrsRobbieHart

For some Scottish people poor pour and paw all sound different.

I’m in NI I was furious with my sons primary school teacher for marking him wrong on a homework. He had to circle the homophones. One of the options was poor and pour. DS didn’t circle them. Because they don’t sound the same. He was marked wrong. Stupid teacher clearly printed something off an English teaching website and didn’t even bother to check what the words were when he was marking it.

I'm sitting here repeating pour, paw and poor and cannot for the life of me get them to sound the same! Accents are so funny.

I pronounce it like Italia without the I. Although the only one I've ever met pronounced it Tay-Leah.

There’s one in my daughters school pronounced tar lee ah

Anyway lovely name.

Oh god this comes up every single time...

The sound is ‘ah’. That is how you spell it phonetically.

Doesn’t matter if you pronounce ‘car’ as ‘cah’...you don’t spell the sound that way.

It’s a lovely name but this is just going to turn into yet another heated discussion.

FWIW I like it pronounced both ways (short or long ‘a’).

I'm sitting here repeating pour, paw and poor and cannot for the life of me get them to sound the same! Accents are so funny.

@MrsRobbieHart

I'm sitting here repeating pour, paw and poor and cannot for the life of me get them to sound the same! Accents are so funny.

I have figured out how to make paw and pour sound the same... I think. Poor is still stubbornly refusing to be a homophone

I've taught two

Ta (short a)- lee - a (short a) except one had the first syllable emphasised and the other had the second syllable emphasised

The sound is ‘ah’. That is how you spell it phonetically.

What sound is ah? Long a like in the English English pronunciation of Bali, or short a like in the word English English or Scottish English pronunciation of clap? There is no such thing as correctly 'spelling something phonetically'; that is why the International Phonetic Alphabet exists.

@TwinsandTrifle

You don't say Bali as "barley?"

Bah-LEE vs BERR-lee

Not only that, farmers and pyjamas don't rhyme either (FERR-merrs and pi-JEM-ahs in my northern Scottish accent).

I have no idea what tbe difference between the OPs two pronounciations are even knowing 'ar' is suppose to be a long 'a'. DS is at school with a TA-lee-ah but she's a bit of a madam so I'd avoid the name.

@HollyandIvyandAllThingsYule

Oh god this comes up every single time...

The sound is ‘ah’. That is how you spell it phonetically.

Doesn’t matter if you pronounce ‘car’ as ‘cah’...you don’t spell the sound that way.

It’s a lovely name but this is just going to turn into yet another heated discussion.

FWIW I like it pronounced both ways (short or long ‘a’).

The plot thickens and I'm more confused now

@Plotato

The sound is ‘ah’. That is how you spell it phonetically.

What sound is ah? Long a like in the English English pronunciation of Bali, or short a like in the word English English or Scottish English pronunciation of clap? There is no such thing as correctly 'spelling something phonetically'; that is why the International Phonetic Alphabet exists.

Yes, that is why the phonetic alphabet exists. My point was very muddled tbf, because this recurring argument people have on here drives me crazy.

God I wish more people knew how to use it...

Oh and I was referring to the long sound with the ‘ah’ thing.

I’m in NI I was furious with my sons primary school teacher for marking him wrong on a homework. He had to circle the homophones. One of the options was poor and pour. DS didn’t circle them. Because they don’t sound the same. He was marked wrong. Stupid teacher clearly printed something off an English teaching website and didn’t even bother to check what the words were when he was marking it.

I thought DH was just weird when he went on about "pooring" milk in the tea. "Poh-errrrr" "Yes, that's what I said, poor". "No, poh-err" "yes, poor".