Tituba is a proper noun referring to the Caribbean/South American enslaved woman who served as an enslaved priestess in colonial-era folklore and in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. In pronunciation guides, it is treated as a two-syllable proper name with stress patterns that can vary by speaker, often rendered as TI-tu-ba or ti-TOO-bə depending on dialect. The name's phonology centers on FLAP-R and stable final /-bə/ sequence in many English varieties.
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