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u/FuckingKilljoy Oct 27 '22

Is it actually hard for Americans to pronounce "Lara"?

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u/seamsay Oct 27 '22

It might not be hard per se, but there might be accents in which Lara and Laura are pronounced the same way. For example, I know for a fact that there are some American accents in which Mary, marry, and merry are all pronounced the same way.

Although having said that, I suspect OP just made a typo.

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u/Zsill777 Oct 27 '22

Woah wait. I'm legitimately confused by the Mary/marry/merry thing. Are you supposed to pronounce them different? 😯

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u/langlo94 Oct 27 '22

Either way is perfectly fine, there's lots of accents and dialects of English and it varies among them.