Cora pronunciation?

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Think I love the girls name Cora... how is it pronounced / how would you pronounce it as default though?

From looking online, advice seems to vary between CORE-ah (rhymes with flora and dora, where the first syllable is pronounced like apple core); and C-OR-a / Cawr-a (where the first syllable rhymes with for!)

Not sure if this is an accent / regional difference or not... votes please!

I’m Scottish too and would pronounce it to rhyme with Flora. Wouldn’t be half as pretty the other way. It was very nearly DD’s name.

P.s . Also in the west of Scotland

Obviously it rhymes with Flora in everyone's accent. But in my Irish accent Flora sounds like flaw-ra.

So Core-a and Caw-ra would be the same sound to me.

Here you go, I'm not making it up. Paw, pore, pour and poor, all sound exactly the same in a London / SE England accent.

From 1:12 on this video - this is how I saw them.

Anyone with this accent will say Flora to rhyme with the sound in this video. For us, there is no other possible way to say it.

@runningoutofnewnames I'm with you, pour, poor, paw all sound exactly the same, and core rhymes with raw and for, and floor.

*this is how I SAY them, I mean!

All those rhyme in my East Midlands accent! I love that there are so many ways we all speak the same language. I would say Cora to rhyme with flora/Dora. Beautiful name.

@ColdShouldersWarmTummy 😂😂😂 That actually is bizarrely helpful... I wouldn't dream of pronouncing Dora any other way than Door-a!

For, core, lore, door, draw, drawer, more, war, wore....all rhyme pefectly for me.

@Filthyslattern

For, core, lore, door, draw, drawer, more, war, wore....all rhyme pefectly for me.

They all rhyme for me with the exception of draw.

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This is why ipa exists.

For, core, lore, door, draw, drawer, more, war, wore....all rhyme pefectly for me

For, war rhyme with each other

Core. Door, more, wire rhyme with each other

Draw and Drawer are similar to for and war but not quite enough to rhyme.

@MajorCarolDanvers

For, core, lore, door, draw, drawer, more, war, wore....all rhyme pefectly for me

For, war rhyme with each other

Core. Door, more, wire rhyme with each other

Draw and Drawer are similar to for and war but not quite enough to rhyme.

Wire?! Wow! That's completely different in my accent. Wire is nothing at all like core, for me!

So, would Cora rhyme with Wire-a?

Where are you from?

I’m another one who thinks core/for/drawer all sound like OR I thought you’d be asking about the second syllable, core-ah or core-uh

Draw doesn’t rhyme with For
Door rhymes with Wire

That has to be a typo?

Draw and for have a similar sound

Wire doesn't rhyme with any of these words, assume typo for wore?

@BeefSupreme

I don't think many would pronounce it Caw-ra. People would see it and think it must rhyme with Flora and Dora.

Cawra, Flora and Dora all sound the same to me

@Chichimcgee

Draw doesn’t rhyme with For Door rhymes with Wire

That has to be a typo?

Draw and for are the same for me.

Wire was a typo and should have been wore.

oh god, you think pork and fork don't rhyme, don't you...

They don't

Cora rhymes with Flora

It's probably regional differences in pronunciation

From looking online, advice seems to vary between CORE-ah (rhymes with flora and dora, where the first syllable is pronounced like apple core); and C-OR-a / Cawr-a (where the first syllable rhymes with for!)

Does the first syllable of for and Flora not sound similar ?

To me Cor-a, bit like Car-a but with an o sound. I guess it does sound the same as core-ah

None of those words sound the same - whether Scottish accent or RP.

I speak Modern RP (think Emma Watson more than the Queen) and they are all the same for me.