Dorothy/Dorothea.

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Are these two spellings for a name always pronounced the same ?Thankyou.

No!

one is Do-row-thee the next is Do-row-thee-a.

i love Dorothea

No...

Dorothy = doh-row-thee
Dorothea = doh-row-thee-ah

Not pronounced the same. I love Dorothea as it makes me think of the young woman in Middlemarch. Dorothy is nice too, though. And Dot is a sweet shortening.

I also know a Dorothea pronounced Do-ro-TAY-a.

Dorothea pronounced Do-ro-Tay-a is how I pronounce it, but I'm not English speaker.

As pp said, Dorr-o-thee, and dorr-o-THEE-a

Both lovely names. I prefer Dorothea as it makes me think of Dot in the Swallows and Amazons series, who is a brilliant character.

This is how i would pronounce both.

Me too but the t in tay is more of a ff with a t shape sound

Love Dorothea as a name. In English th sound is pronounced as whereas my relative who was German pronounced it as tea sound. Pretty in both though!

Was going to post exactly this!

Fabulous names. I've met ones of each over the years with both /t/ and th depending where they're from. A Dorota as well which I think is a variant.

Many thanks.

Dorothy is lovely but I don't like Dorothea or Thea