How do you pronounce the first A in Sarah?

My parents pronounce it Say-rah but I pronounce it Sair-ah. I think it’s because of how they’d heard it pronounced in church. A lot of older people say it that way.

@Selena my folks say it like that too but they’re from the rural south lol so they’re a lil country

I've only ever heard it "sair-rah"

@Asha ooh I’ve never heard the first version before, wish there were voice notes on here! I’m sat on my sofa in England trying to say this in a southern US accent and can’t get it at all 😂

@Sorrel 🤣🤣🤣 let me see if I can find a video for you

So mines is pronounced Sair-rah but I have family that live in the country and they all pronounce it Say-rah 😭.

Sair-rah in English, Sa-Ra (Sahara without the ha 😂) in Dutch

@Sorrel I can’t find a video lol but it’s kinda like this

@Asha lol I appreciate it, thank you 😅 was driving me nuts! I kinda like it too lol

@Sorrel lol I feel like it was a little more dramatized by me 🤣 but that’s why my family sounds like to me

i say sah rah and for banana and hannah i say bah nah na and hahn a apparently i say specific words weird

@Asha, you sound exactly like my dad. 😂 He’s from Mississippi.

@Selena lol my folks are from Georgia I’ve got a cousin named Penny that I had no idea that her name was penny all this time because they called her peeny 🤣