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How do you pronounce this?

Allura.  I would think alure-a (like the magazine with an a at the end) but do you think they are going for Alora?  A-lore-a....a friend just announced that as the name for their baby girl due in a few weeks.
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Re: How do you pronounce this?

  • I would say it the same way as you.
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  • imagerider5344:
    Allura.  I would think alure-a (like the magazine with an a at the end) but do you think they are going for Alora?  A-lore-a....a friend just announced that as the name for their baby girl due in a few weeks.

    That was my first reaction.

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  • Allure-uh.

    I don't see any other way to pronounce it.

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  • I'm going to have to disagree . . . they might have been going for Alure-ah, but that spelling, phonetically, reads ah-lurr-ah. Without the E at the end, as in the word alure, there cannot be a long U. So, said with a short vowel sound it's ah-lurr-ah, "lurr" rhyming with fur.

    Like I said, that's probably not what they were hoping for, but that's how it reads.

     

  • imagestrangebird:

    I'm going to have to disagree . . . they might have been going for Alure-ah, but that spelling, phonetically, reads ah-lurr-ah. Without the E at the end, as in the word alure, there cannot be a long U. So, said with a short vowel sound it's ah-lurr-ah, "lurr" rhyming with fur.

    Like I said, that's probably not what they were hoping for, but that's how it reads.

     

    This. Unfortunate choice.

  • I would probably say it like the magazine. I really, really don't like it...
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  • imagerider5344:
    I would think alure-a (like the magazine with an a at the end).

     This is what my instinct would be, too. 

  • I agree with the magazine.  a lure uh
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  • Its my niece's middle name.  They say it like the magazine, Ah - lure - ah.  Her father is Native American and said it means Princess..but he is also often on drugs so I don't know if I trust his name knowledge.
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