Perhaps this is about a character that was irrelevant seven years ago, but do you say Lara Croft or Laura Croft? It's spelled L-A-R-A, so it should be pronounced lah-rah, but I hear a lot of people pronouncing it lawr-uh, especially on podcasts. Especially on 1UP podcasts, goddammit! Jeremy Parish is obsessed with calling her Laura. Does anybody from the Laura side have any definitive evidence to counter the fact that her name is not actually Laura, but Lara?

It's Lah-rah Croft. 
 
Saying it any other way makes you a complete tit.

How could anyone think it was B unless they misread the name? 

Is the Laura pronounciation an American thing? I always just assumed it was. YOU BIG WEIRDS!

" It's Lah-rah Croft.  Saying it any other way makes you a complete tit. "

" Is the Laura pronounciation an American thing? I always just assumed it was. YOU BIG WEIRDS! "

I pronounce it LAW-RUH. Also the thing you have it option B would pronounced LO-RAH, not LAWR-UH.

B made sense for me when I was a complete youngster, at the height of Lara's popularity (Tomb Raider 1). Having re-thought it, I will say A now. That's the correct way.

It's pronounced: John Smith

Press X to "Lara"

" It's Lah-rah Croft.  Saying it any other way makes you a complete tit. "

" I pronounce it LAW-RUH. Also the thing you have it option B would pronounced LO-RAH, not LAWR-UH. "

It was originally going to be Laura Croft, they changed it to suit an American audience. So it's Lara.

" It was originally going to be Laura Croft, they changed it to suit an American audience. So it's Lara. "

my native language is Spanish and L-A-R-A is something easy an no confusing to say

 It's idiotic to pronounce it "Lau-Rah" because they changed it from that to "Lah-Rah" to make it resonate more in America.  

" @ZanzibarBreeze: Now, in Sheffield, there is a road called Lara Croft Way to honour where she was made. "

" @CandleJakk said:

" @ZanzibarBreeze: Now, in Sheffield, there is a road called Lara Croft Way to honour where she was made. "

It's so all the lairy lads can drive past and say to their mates "Lara Croft? WEEYYYYYYYYY" "

" @ZanzibarBreeze:  It's a very tricky name. Depending on how you're reading it, you can sort of match it to both forms of the phonetic spellings. "

 Everyone/thing in the U.K. gets a Blue plague nowadays in commeration of what was accomplished there. "

I hear the name is most popular in Australia, I could be wrong though..

" @calum_s_gunn said:

" @CandleJakk said:

" @ZanzibarBreeze: Now, in Sheffield, there is a road called Lara Croft Way to honour where she was made. "

It's so all the lairy lads can drive past and say to their mates "Lara Croft? WEEYYYYYYYYY" "

 Everyone/thing in the U.K. gets a Blue plague nowadays in commeration of what was accomplished there. "

" @MrCroftLover: Ah, I misunderstood your meaning, apologies. I blame tiredness (currently 03:30 here), but never mind.  Don't worry about spelling, I knew what you meant, I'll just pick it up if I'm in a particularly arsey mood. "

Now, let us turn to Urban Dictionary to find out what the name really means:
 

Lara: The most amazing girlfriend, a guy couldn't ask for more.
Laura: A really really cool person; guys want her and girls want to be her. Has many friends. Everyone likes her, they dont only pretend to like her. 

I'm listening to a podcast right now where people are saying "Laura", and it's driving me nuts. I thought I'd use the opportunity to give the new forum search function a whirl, and here's the exact thread I need to gripe about it!

@buzz_clik said:

So I happened to start playing through the latest Tomb Raider game a couple of days ago, about 4 years and 8 months after the latest post in this thread, and the interesting (crazy?) thing is that even the voice actors in the game pronounce her name the wrong way all the time. A few minutes ago a character pronounced it two different ways (Lara and the wrong way = Laura) in one single cutscene! It is the strangest/weirdest thing.