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How do you pronounce Sarah?
I say S-air-a and husband says S-a-ra (short a).
If we could agree on a pronounciation, Sarah Elizabeth will probably be our girl name choice.
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Re: How do you pronounce Sarah?
In the UK Sara is with a short A and Sarah is like Sair-ah. I would say Sair-ah.
It depends, I hear S-air-ah but around the NYC area we say d Sara. It's the same name, just depends on peoples accent. So people also say S-eh-rah.
My sister is sara and I think it's a beautiful name.
like your DH
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Ditto this.
One of my best friends is named Sarah, and everyone we know from NY and NJ pronounces it this way. Drives her batty.
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That's funny! I actually like the "rhymes with car" pronunciations of Tara as well as Cara better than Tair-a and Cair-a.
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Congrats it's a beautiful name and it's pronounced Sar-UH.
that's my name!
you pronounce it just like Sara. let's see: Sar-uh
my name is Sarah Elizabeth
so, i think its a fantastic name. lol
Seriously?
Seriously what? There are actually 2 different ways to say this name.
NE accents aside, I have never heard this name pronounced more than one way. To me this question is like how to pronounce Tom. Or Sam. Or Matt.
Sara without an H is pronounced differently than Sarah with an H in the UK. I have also met people, in the South, named Sarah, pronounced like car in the middle. So actually it isn't anything like Tom or Sam or Matt.
Interesting, but I've never heard anyone say Sarah with a car sound. This site says Sarah is pronounced SAIR-ruh. Surprisingly it does say that Sara (no h) can be pronounced 2 ways, but I think 99.9% of people use the first. Crazy.
I've actually NEVER heard it pronounced with a short a in the US, and I know a lot of Sarahs. Maybe this is a regional thing.
I've only ever heard Sair-uh and (in the South) Say-ruh.
This is a regional thing, I think. I am from New England, and I say Sah-ra, first syllable "a" rhyming with hat or flat. I actually think it sounds odd and slightly nasally (sorry!) when people say Sair-a, with the "a" rhyming w/ hair or scare.
Same thing w/ the name Harry. Harry is Hah-ry, it is not the word "hairy!" lol.
Seriously? So if you read the name Ben, you say Bin? huh. interesting.
This is true for most Northeasterners - I grew up in RI and pronounce it with a short "a" (similar to the 'a' sound in the word "sad"). My husband, a west coast native, says sair-ah.
We run into the same issue with Aaron and Erin. To me, they're two very different sounding names, but my husband practically pronounces them the same. To me, Erin = Eh-rin.