SS/PS question

Geoff Bannister gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk
Sat Aug 9 06:38:43 UTC 2008


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

Geoff:
> > The usual pronunciation I have heard is 'Alice' - as in Alice in
> Wonderland - followed by 'i-a' with a short i. In other words, all the
> vowels are short.
 
> > Hope that makes sense!

Carol: 
> But isn't the accent on the second syllable in Alicia, as you
> pronounce it (Ah LISS ih a), rather than the first syllable, as in
> Alice (AH liss), with "ah" indicating a short "a" as in "cat" and "ih"
> a short "i" as in "pit"?
> 
> I can't quite "get" the short "i" in "i-a," though, because, to me, it
> sounds like long "e" (ee) even in the British pronunciation (Ah LISS
> ee uh, with the "uh" representing a schwa).
> 
> Carol, who would pronounce the name the American way, Ah LEE shuh

Geoff:
I stress the same syllable in each. Having a long e sound as you 
describe it would shift the stress to the third syllable.







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