Thoughts on the baby name Carla with Spanish pronunciation?

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In Spanish i love it - it reminds me of ELITE (A show i like) and carla from scrubs, but i prefer ELITE pronounciation (CARR-LAH) - in english i dont like it, too old lady lol _ thoughts????? coming back to me after watching Elite and a few videos on leanring spanish

@supercrone Thanks. That explains it well.

I’m a Londoner & can’t see any difference between Cah and Car. Unless it’s to do with rolling the r?

It's the 'uh' sound you get for vowels in unstressed syllable in words in English.
For example, Ian is said as Ee-un not EE-an, Emma is said as EMM-uh not EMM-ah, Simon is said as SIGH-mun not SIGH-mon

Mid central vowel - Wikipedia

It might not apply in your local accent.

It’s to do with pronouncing the r…you don’t have to roll an r to pronounce it. R’s are rolled in some accents, not others. And even then usually only in some words.

You can hear the r in car being pronounced by Irish and American speakers in this link:
https://forvo.com/word/car/
They have rhotic accents so pronounce the r at all positions in a word. Most English accents are non-rhotic.

I've always wondered what a schwa sound is.
I now know that I don't say it. To me Emma is exactly that Emm-ah, not Emm-uh.

Thanks @DeeNiall

I don't roll Rs but I do pronounce them. I wouldn't say murrrrder but kind of swallow the R sound - very hard to explain.

Thank you. I can just about hear the difference.

Thank you, I think it's is different in my Irish accent. Emm ah is what I'd say

@EmpressaurusKitty , in a rhotic accent, the Car in Carla sounds like the Car in Carol.

In a non-rhotic accent you don't hear the r.

'ah' to me is the a in cat,not the a in car.

I love Carla! So beautiful

I wont be putting on any accent to pronounce a name. Doubt anyone would.

I don't know any other way of pronouncing Carla than the "Spanish" way that the OP describes.
The few "English" versions people have suggested sound exactly the same to me.
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So a life time of correcting people in the UK who mis pronounce!? Erm no

I can't pronounce it differently so it would hard for me!

I can't really work out what you mean OP,so just googled. Google says it's to do with a clipped A at the end. You'll be forever correcting people.

Be prepared for it to be pronounced incorrectly if u do not live in Spain. Don't saddle a child with a name that constantly needs to be corrected.

I would say it as Cahla (nearly Cahler).

If you live in England nobody is going to pronounce it like that and I think a lot of English only speakers would find that pronunciation difficult.
You could move to Wales or Scotland of course where it would be no problem.
Or accept the English Carla pronunciation!

If you’re not Spanish this sounds pretty weird to me! Why would you want people to pronounce it in a Spanish accent? Can you even speak Spanish?

We had a pupil called Beatrice. In NE Scotland it would be pronounced "Beet-riss".

The parents went mad, even if anyone said "Bea-ah-triss" (or how it would be said in an English accent)

No, it was "Bay-a-treech-ay". They had no connection to any other country - they just wanted it to be unique.
Poor child facing a lifetime of correcting people.

When the “a” (or any vowel) is unstressed it makes more of an “uh” sound. It is the most common vowel sound in English (and not taught in any DfE approved phonics schemes.)

Something like panda. The first a is a typical short a sound and the last sound is more uh. More obviously things like lemon are said more lemin rather than lem-on. If that makes sense?

I once sat through Read Write Inc training with a video of a teacher trying to get a group to read the word “lesson” about 5 times the children barked out: “l-e-s-o-n… less-on” and the teacher asked them shot five times to have another go before finally saying it himself, “l-e-s-o-n… lesin” 🤦‍♀️

the first a sound is much lighter in Spanish. Almost like, “Caaar-La” (assuming you roll the r).

I’m half Spanish, I have a Spanish name. In England It has always been pronounced the English way. Trying to enforce Spanish pronunciation when not in Spain will be an uphill battle you won’t win!

I never know what rolling the rrs means? I'm Irish, I pronounce my R's, but how do you know if you roll them?

Haha brilliant.

Try saying “burr” as if you were cold and try to make the r as long as possible. If your tongue is still, you are not rolling the r and it will be harder to elongate. If your tongue is vibrating it should be easy to stretch the burrrrrrrrr and you are rolling an r.