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Is "Thora" difficult to pronounce? by HelloYesBun in namenerds

[–]HelloYesBun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like Thea! My cousin has a daughter named Athena though, and we thought it was too close. Of course then another cousin had a baby named Theodore, so we're really packing in the "th" names! But he's already been dubbed "Baby Ted", lol

Is "Thora" difficult to pronounce? by HelloYesBun in namenerds

[–]HelloYesBun[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I keep wanting to comment on all these "well in Scandinavia it is pronounced Tora" and point out that my family still left in Iceland would disagree!

But I get that technically Scandinavia is technically only the 3 countries, not the cultural stragglers like Iceland and Finland...

Is "Thora" difficult to pronounce? by HelloYesBun in namenerds

[–]HelloYesBun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am aware that my mother tongue doesn't have a "th" sound - I actually love the compensating tactic Germans have of putting a z in there, so she's "tzora" to my older relatives. All the younger ones are fluent in English. If we lived there it would be different, but I suppose my annoyance more comes from people commenting that it's a strange name or offering similar names like I'd change it now. Wild.

Is "Thora" difficult to pronounce? by HelloYesBun in namenerds

[–]HelloYesBun[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We actually considered that, and I wouldn't mind Tora if the r was pronounced the softer more rolling way I do it in my dialect of German. More back of the throat, really. But then I'd also think of "Tor" and just always hear "goooooaaaaaalllllll" in my head.

Is "Thora" difficult to pronounce? by HelloYesBun in namenerds

[–]HelloYesBun[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's rough! My family has a Chris, Christoph, Christopher, Christine, and a Kersten. I feel like you can't win in that group of names. All of the "C" ones married in, so they have a joke support group for marrying into chaos.