Tips:

• Pronounce the first syllable like the word “air” and give it a minor stress.
• Pronounce the letter “i” as the weak schwa vowel
  /ə/.
• Pronounce the third syllable like the word “stock” and give it the major stress.
• Pronounce the first letter “c” as a stopped “k”—/k̚/—at the end of the third syllable and then as an aspirated
  /k/ at the beginning of the forth syllable, where it forms a consonant cluster with “r” /kr/.
• Pronounce the second letter “c” as
  /s/.
• Pronounce the second letter “a” as the weak schwa vowel
  /ə/.