Ok so this 100 percent is going to sound like I’m nuts and splitting hairs but it really does drive me crazy. My husband loves the name [name_f]Nora[/name_f]. It’s grown on me though I prefer [name_f]Cora[/name_f]. My issue is I want to be exactly sure of how to pronounce the name I give my child and for [name_f]Nora[/name_f] I hear two slightly different pronunciation.
[name_f]Nor[/name_f]-uh
vs
[name_f]Nor[/name_f]-rah
I know this might sound ridiculous but that actually does make a difference to me as [name_f]Nor[/name_f]-rah flows off my tongue a little better but I feel like [name_f]Nor[/name_f]-uh is the correct way to say the name. Which is it???
[name_f]Nor[/name_f]-uh, rhymes with [name_f]Cora[/name_f]. But I’m trying to figure out how you say [name_f]Nor[/name_f]-rah…Because that seems like it would be the same to me.
They look the same to me. It rhymes with [name_f]Cora[/name_f]. Maybe they sound different when you say it slow and drawn out, but when you just say “[name_f]Nora[/name_f]” there’s only one pronunciation…
I agree that [name_f]Nora[/name_f] is pronounced the same way as [name_f]Cora[/name_f]; great choice by the way!
The stress is on the first syllable and the “r” sound flows into the second syllable. I would describe the pronunciation as “NAW-ruh” (because the second syllable unstressed, it has a shorter sound). If you stress both syllables “NAW-RAH”, it sounds almost the same but the vowel sound is longer. So I think in this case, both pronunciations would be acceptable.