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

Same here. I say EMM-ah.

But is that -ah the same as in ant? Because then it would be a stressed a. Emm-A! And would sort of imply surprise or a foreign accent. Nearly all native English speakers are not stressing that last a in Emma. Have a look at the schwa and some examples on YouTube and it will make sense.

No because it is unstressed. I'm not foreign or English. I am British.

It would be the same as the in Bobcat or Doormat. I do not refer to them as bob-CAT! and door-MAT! in some surprised or foreign manner.

I think I need a kik-KAT!!! to get over your rather silly post.

@supercrone I pronounce Rs but don't roll them.

Rolling Rs always reminds me of the old Taggart phrase, "There's been a murrrderrrr"

I’m Irish too. You’re probably not rolling the r’s.

Here’s Carla said in other accents/languages:
https://forvo.com/word/carla/

It’s not how Irish people would typically say the name, though we still pronounce the r.

Apologies, I thought this was an interesting conversation.

Enjoy your Kit Kat.

@FunnyOrca , It's not interesting when somebody reads my 'I say EMM-ah.' as "Because then it would be a stressed a. Emm-A! And would sort of imply surprise or a foreign accent. "
I used uppercase to indicate the syllable I stress.

It wasn't a Kit Kat, it was a 'Kit-KAT!!!'. A .
I am a native English speaker but not English. Not all British people are English and many of us have regional accents.

Interesting. I say all these names in your 'not as' way! (West coast Scotland accent).

Which is why I said "It might not apply in your local accent."

I have no idea what this "schwa" sound is and I'm Scottish.

@HelpmaBoabb , Schwa Sound | English Pronunciation

How can Cara have the "schwa" sound ??

It's Cara.

ˈkɑːrə
The name Cara is pronounced as /ˈkɑːrə/. This phonetic transcription indicates the sound of the word in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

It’s from linguistics and it’s used to describe the most common vowel sound in English. I’ve explained it a few times up thread. Wikipedia also has a good explanation. You may never have heard of it, but if you were to read this post aloud you would make it at least 7 times.

@HelpmaBoabb , The usual British pronunciation is Ca-ruh, the uh sound is the schwa.

In ˈkɑːrə, the ' indicates the stressed syllable, the ka is the Ca sound, the : shows where the next syllable starts, and the rə is the ruh sound.
In other words, the usual British pronunciation is KA-ruh.

From what I've read, the schwa sound isn't normal in a Scottish accent.
We'd say Car-ah, not Car-uh.

I'd always wondered why posters described a word as having an uh sound when I'd have said ah.
Now I know.

@RaraRachael , It is but in strange places like world and Alba.

Sorry I don't understand

@RaraRachael , Alba is not AL-buh but AL-uh-ba, in some accents world is WUR-uhld.

I agree. Where I come from in Scotland we say car-ah. We certainly don't "schwa" I am from a region that is known for it's very good pronounciation.

Lots of English accents pronounce words very strangely IMO.

There are so many accents, and they vary. You could argue that any accent says some words strangely, even Scottish ones.

I agree. I found it strange trying to teach phonics in England when they don't pronounce some of the sounds

My understanding was that the schwa can vary a bit in pronunciation, depending on the letters next to it in a word and depending on accent. I don’t think it represents an exact sound necessarily, though it always represents an unstressed, ‘weak’ vowel sound.

It's usually an uh sound.
In something like Eleanor, the 'ea' isn't a shwa even though it's unstressed.

Agree - I'm Scottish and living in England. Trying to help my child to read using the English phonics system was challenging to say the least. It slightly blew my (Scottish) mind to learn that they are actively taught not to pronounce the r after a vowel. And there are two 'oo' sounds. Who knew. While my child has an English accent he does pronounce his rs as I chose to teach him that. It was never going to work with my accent telling him that car says 'cah' 😂