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Lyra pronunciation
I love the name Lyra, but when I first heard it, it was pronounced LEER-uh. I then found out that LY-ruh is technically the correct pronunciation, but I'm just not as in love with that as the way I first heard it.What do you think? Is it the kind of name where it's pronounced multiple ways, and I could get away with it or not?

This message was edited 1/25/2016, 4:39 AM

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I love it, but the ambiguity of pronunciation is a big reason I didn't use it. I can't even decide which pronunciation I like better.
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Lee-ra is even listed as a pronunciation in the name on this site. I don't think that it would be a huge difficulty to get people to use that pronunciation. I actually think it's probably more accurate to the Greek constellation name the origin is attributed to.
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Lyra is the name of my new grandkitty. We pronounce it LEER-uh. I've only heard this pronunciation. Even if you did encounter a person here or there who used the long i pronunciation (hate that, btw), LEER-uh is definitely doable.

This message was edited 1/25/2016, 6:32 PM

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It's Ly-ruhVery lovely name BTW (:
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I'm not a fan of it, but I would prefer it pronounced as LEER-uh.
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I say LEER-uh
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I would never pronounce Lyra any other way than LY-ruh unless I was told differently.
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In Swedish it's pronounced more or less like LEER-uh, so that's the pronounciation I prefer. LY-ruh makes me think of the word "liar".
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I have only heard it as "lie-ruh". I think you can get away with "leer-uh", but it would probably be better if you spell it Lira.
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Yeah, you can pronounce it as you like.
People adapt. I know a Leah "LAY-uh" ... she is often annoyed by mistakes but it's not a disaster, you just correct people. I think that one is harder to deal with than Lyra "LEER-a" would be.
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Personally I wasn't aware that you could pronounce in a way different than LY-rah/ruh. If it's pronounced multiple different ways where you live I think you could get away with it
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I say LIE-rə and always thought it was pronounced like that because of The Golden Compass, but once I got into names I heard there was LEER-ə too. I'm not a big fan of it (I think it's the leer sound), but I guess it could work, it seems to be a known pronunciation, although I feel like Lira is more likely to get to it.
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Hi !!!I'm Italian so I pronounce it as LEE-rah because of its Greek-Latin origin.And another thing..
In Italy 'lira' is the ancient instrument but also the previous Italian currency replaced by Euro. XDByeeeee
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Well, it's possible to pronounce it both ways. And since it's a Greek/Latin name to start with, Lee-rah makes more sense than Lay-rah.
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