How would you pronounce the name Cora?

[jumpforjoyitsaboy]

Corr-ra
Or
Like Coral without the L?

Corr - ah

I have a Cora ♥️

She always gets Cora to rhyme with Flora, Nora, Dora (door-ah).

We're in Scotland, so this means Coe - rah / Core - ah... NOT Corr-ah with an aw sound, to rhyme with Laura.

I am pretty sure however in the south of England, where Laura would be pronounced more like Lore-uh, Cora would be pronounced a similar way.

So it depends entirely on where you are / local accents!

Jonathan Ross doesn’t have a lisp though… Lisps affect the S sound. The person I was responding to said they couldn’t remember/didn’t know the word for the impediment he has. Nobody’s being pedantic.

And if I'd said that nobody would have had a clue most people say a lisp ....pedanticism, be paramount.

It's a common speech impediment. I wouldn't have known it was called rhotacism, but I don't think most people would call it a lisp. It's very well known that a lisp is a specific problem with pronouncing the letter 's'.

English vowel sounds are amazing.

No more amazing than anyone else's vowel sounds. Besides, there are no 'English vowel sounds'. They sound pretty different in different parts of England.

I'm a Cora and its always pronounced to rhyme with Laura, Dora etc

Yes thats what I meant - The twenty different English language vowel sounds are amazing because they can be so different in different parts of the English language speaking world. :)

I wasn't being pedantic about Jonathan Ross. As PP have pointed out, a lisp is a completely different thing to rhotacism.

I'm a Cora and its always pronounced to rhyme with Laura, Dora etc

But Laura and Dora don't rhyme in all accents. I'd say Law-ra but Dough-ra.
It all depends on accents.

@jannier , it isn't a lisp, and I doubt that 'most people' would say it.

Yes typical MN when you get called pedantic for actually pointing out a fact 🙄

Cor to rhyme with floor.