Re: an announcement...

dnsulani@internet-zahav.net writes:
>(So Barry, how do you pronounce it? )
>In "Garcia", I pronounced it with the stress on -ci-.  The unstressed
>nature
>of the first syllable tells them not to put an alef in. Writing it as
>gimel - alef - reish would mean that it was pronounced with the stress
>on the first syllable and/or the first syllable's /a/  was [a:]
>(lengthened.).
Actually i'm not quite sure of the vowel sounds when I pronounce it. I
haven't been able to find someting on the IPA chart that really explains
the terms they give (which explains why i never comment when other peoples
phonologies are posted here on the list! =) ). I can give a comparison to
other words, if it helps.

In my west coast american accent, my first name rhymes with: berry, airy,
scary, very. Stress is on the first syllable.

My last name is close to the Spanish, but the final 'a' is said with a
schwa. Stress is on -ci-.