How do you tend to pronounce 'Lauren'?

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09 Jul 2015, 12:09 pm

When I speak it, I pronounce it LOR-ən. But I've noticed recently that I keep reading it in my head as LAWR-ən, which is weird because I've always preferred the former.

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09 Jul 2015, 2:42 pm

I would pronounce it Lauren (same as lawr-ən I suppose) but I am not an English speaker so I use Polish pronunciation when I come to a word I don't know correct pronunciation of, especially if it looks similar to a Polish word. In this case we have a name Laura in Polish and we pronounce it Laura (we read as we see) so why would I pronounce Lauren as Loren? There is no O in it and it looks like Laura.

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09 Jul 2015, 3:49 pm

Like Lore-in.

I also pronounce Laura as Lore-uh.

I'm not sure how I pronounce Lara but I probably would pronounce it as Lar-uh.

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09 Jul 2015, 8:42 pm

I'm a New Yorker--Definitely "Lore-in." Unless a "Lauren" pronounces it differently.

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09 Jul 2015, 9:44 pm

I'm an Aussie. I say Lauren the same way as Warren. "LOrren" probably explains it best.

Laura I pronounce LORE-uh.

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09 Jul 2015, 10:37 pm

I pronounce it as LAW-UREN

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10 Jul 2015, 10:15 am

I chose "LAWR-ən"----'cept, I would put the "r", in the SECOND syllable.....

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10 Jul 2015, 11:50 am

^ Ditto.

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10 Jul 2015, 9:51 pm

I think I tend to pronounce it more like Lore-en, but with a bit of an aw in there.

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10 Jul 2015, 10:52 pm

i say law-ren, most people call me lore-en.

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11 Jul 2015, 5:18 am

I wasn't aware there was more than one way to say it..

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11 Jul 2015, 11:14 am

LKSmash wrote:

i say law-ren, most people call me lore-en.

It's kind of half-and-half with me. I've noticed that people older than me tend to say 'LAWR-en', while people younger than me/my age usually call me 'LORE-en'.

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11 Jul 2015, 1:01 pm

I pronounce "Laura" as "Lore-ah", and so I pronounce Lauren as "lore -in".

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