lurkist wrote:
"amazing" should be "um ay zing"
"Amiga" should be "um ee guh"
"AmIRC" etc. should be "am eye are see"
the first two are incorrect (for American English at least)because they put the stress at the wrong parts of the words.
Amazing is not "um ay zing" because the m is stressed on the second syllable. Broken into syllables the word looks like a-ma-zing...not am-a-zing, which in American english would make the opening sound be like the 'am' in 'ham' (or as you suggest here "AmIRC"). Amiga is pronounced in American English as A(uh)-mi(mee)-Ga (guh).
Using the ASCII version of the IPA, the word would look like this... ^'mig^
To be further clear, the opening and ending vowels are the same as the one used in "cup"...in American English anyway.
