Um...

[adamantplatypus.livejournal.com]

Look at the name Marcia. Just look at it. Pronounce it in your head.

Now, fill out this poll:


[Poll #1447354]



I've noticed a lot of ethnic folks pronounce it the first way, where as a lot of Caucasian folks pronounce it the second way. I'd never heard it pronounced "Mar-see-ah" until my current job and all three are African-American ladies from Jamaica.

Comments

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

I'd initially pronounce it Mar-see-ah, but 'ethnic folks'? Really?

[lovetokate.livejournal.com]

I guess she thought it better than "black/yellow/purple folk" :X

[princessleah162.livejournal.com]

I say it the second more than anything.

[tabby-renee.livejournal.com]

Marsh-ah

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

Yeah, because white people don't have an ethnicity? wtf?

[laminy.livejournal.com]

This post has lols not connected to the actual name. But really, I had never seen that name before, and my mind actually flip-flopped on how I would pronounce it.

[satunian.livejournal.com]

you've never seen Marcia? o.o

Oooookay, then I guess you don't know about the Brady Bunch?

[satunian.livejournal.com]

Or any stereotypical romance couple, John&Marcia?

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I've only ever seen it spelled Marsha. This spelling, I've never seen it before. Yes, I've heard of the Brady Bunch. Yes, I've seen the Brady Bunch, but the handful of times I did, I don't ever remember seeing Marcia's name onscreen. And no, I've never heard of John and Marcia. When I hear the name, I picture it as Marsha.

[satunian.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well, Marcia is generally the traditional spelling. Marsha is a more... I'd guess Anglicized version of it

[satunian.livejournal.com]

I do pronounce it MARSH-ah, however, in the similar case of Alicia, I much prefer "A-lee-cee-ah" to "ah-lee-sha"

[lilith-gypsy.livejournal.com]

haha. this made me see and think Alisha

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

I've never heard anything else but Marsh-ah. Terrible name.

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

I say marsh-ah.

I work with two women from the carribean islands (Jamaica & Dominica), and they both say "Mar-see-ah."

Um.

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

"African-American ladies from Jamaica"

Wouldn't they be...Jamaican?

Re: Um.

[joereaves.livejournal.com]

Seriously lol. If they're not American then they're not African-American.

Re: Um.

[littlegee.livejournal.com]

iawtc... Jamaica is not a part of Africa...

Re: Um.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

lol.... political correctness taken so far it's very incorrect

[sunshinefleur.livejournal.com]

Marcia is Mar-see-uh, to me (at least, this is how my very pale Dutch great-aunt pronounces her name). Marsha is Marsh-ah.

[boltons.livejournal.com]

mar-see-uh. i'm hispanic.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Australian here, and the only time I've ever seen it Marsh-ah is on The Brady Bunch...

[lilith-gypsy.livejournal.com]

i went to school with a Marcia. pronounced "Mar-see-ah" all the teachers wanted to pronounce it marsha. she was white. so i don't know.

[meggypeggy1.livejournal.com]

Mar-see-ah always, and I'm British.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

i say it marsha but i knew a girl in high school who pronounced it mar-see-ah and she was hispanic.