Thoughts on the baby name Carla with Spanish pronunciation?

This made me chuckle. Reminds me of Love Island a couple of years ago when Uma (North London) is saying “Who’s Emm-uh?” Then Nicole (Wales) shrieks “WHO’s Emm-aaaaaaaaaah?!”

@User6761the kids couldn't understand me speaking French either despite me having had a native teacher and a good accent.
I had to put on the faux accent again and say things like, "Oovrai la pawte"

Love this, very interesting

Haha I can relate to putting on the fake accent - not with my own child but I do have to sometimes when volunteer reading in the local school. Honestly, I am genuinely impressed you taught phonics in England. I think I'd have a class of 5 year olds all reading in a Scottish accent 😂.

I do always pronounce the 'wh' 'properly' however - I mean weather and whether are not the same word! 😂. My child does unfortunately still say 'blue wales' etc 😭 I can but try.

Really interesting

Yes, lots of different accents in Ireland like there are in the UK of course 😊

Going way off the point of the thread now, but google tells me it’s to do with something called the foot-strut split.

This separates the short vowel in words like foot (/ʊ/) from the vowel in words like strut (/ʌ/).

Accents with the split use two different vowel sounds. Put sounds different from putt, and book doesn’t rhyme with buck.

Areas without the split use the same short vowel sound (/ʊ/). Put and putt sound the same, and foot can rhyme with cut.

There was this handy map, which showed that some areas of Ireland (ROI) didn’t have the split and others are mixed. (Mind you, I’m not sure how accurate it is, as I’m pretty sure some Dublin accents do have the split but that’s not shown 🤔)

What was interesting to me is that I live in one of the light purple areas where the split is ‘mixed’. (When I said south of Ireland I really meant south! 😁)

It’s interesting to me because while look and luck sound the same in my accent as I mentioned upthread, I do actually differentiate foot/strut, book/buck, put/putt etc. So a partial split it seems?

@User6761I had to put on a faux English accent if I was teaching the long/short oo sound.
Also with words that are supposed to sound the same like weather/whether, Wales/whales etc

I'm from the South of Ireland too but look and luck are different

I think the confusion comes because there is only one 'oo' sound in most (all?) Scottish accents. As a Scottish parent in England I couldn't understand my child's phonics sheet when it had oo listed twice - one with a picture of the moon, the other with a book.

In Scottish accents moon, book, look, food etc all gave the same oo sound - as does Luke, fluke etc.

The teacher actually wrote in my child's reading diary one time that he was slow to decide on which oo sound to say when reading - I wrote a reply that I was happy for him to say either as I've been using only one my entire life!

@supercrone , It's a made up name.

@HelpmaBoabb , the oo in look sounds like the oo in good or foot.
The u in Luke sounds like the oo in loot or food, or the ui in suit.
Luck rhymes with tuck.

I didn't know the phonetic alphabet so I can't describe it. But they are very different.

That's even more bonkers, thanks for clarifying

When I say most areas I mean English speaking areas worldwide, not just the UK btw. I’m not sure of what the division is like within the UK.

Look sounds like this to me
https://forvo.com/word/look/#en
(the second speaker rather than the first).

Luke has a longer vowel sound
https://forvo.com/word/luke/

I do know someone who pronounces look, book and cook to rhyme with Luke so it obviously depends on accent, but I think in most areas they don’t rhyme.

In my area (in the south of Ireland) the word luck is pronounced the same way as look.

How do Luke and Look sound different?

If I had had a daughter she would have been named Carla and pronounced Carrr-la with a rhotic R but easy for me as I'm Irish and live in Southern Germany where they also roll the R!
Carla is a beautiful name .

I've never heard of Tayla Maid. Also isn't it more that it's how it's said in some English accents? I speak English, I don't say it like that, neither does anyone around me.

Here is an example where the last syllable of a word, cheetah, is pronounced as a schwa (IPA is included). The speakers say it differently from one another depending on their accent, but it’s a schwa in both cases.

I personally say it more like the UK speaker and would transcribe that sound as ah.
To me, the US speaker is making more of an uh sound.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/cheetah

Maybe you thought I meant a different sound when I wrote ah? This sort of transcription doesn’t work well across different accents unfortunately.

The robot is incorrect. It was said that 'luck and look are more likely to sound the same'. Software update required. Current software clearly faulty.

@Mandarinclementine , I can only go by what you post. If you say you say you say Emma as EM-ah then you are not saying it as /ˈem.ə/.

You can say " It’s too prescriptive." but if I need a definition of a pronunciation I look it up.
It probably won't sound the same when all English speakers say it and I'm not saying it should.

@RaraRachael , given that I've read things like "Luck/Luke and look are more likely to sound the same." I used the IPA to show that they don't.
You don't need to understand it, it was just to back up my 'Not true'.

It's pointless to me when posters try to illustrate their point by using IPA? squiggles.
They mean nothing to me (and I suspect a lot of other posters) and I'm not going to spend time and effort learning.

People all over the country pronounce words differently.

When in doubt don’t use the name!
Prefer Cara or Clara

Are you Irish too?

Accents vary so much that I don’t like it when people say this is how something is pronounced (or even usually pronounced) in English. It’s too prescriptive.

You’ve already told me upthread I don’t use a schwa to pronounce words I actually do pronounce with a schwa so I’m going to keep arguing I’m afraid 😁

The AI robot doesn't like being argued with.

You don't know where I'm from but there's a clue in my username.

It's actually not how it's said where I am from.

Must I stick "It might not apply in your local accent." on every post on a thread?
Why is it always an Irish poster who argues?