I was  happy about the compliment about my name , when I was a child I used to hate it , the other girls got short names and Maria was an evil character at a soap opera at the time :) 

The title of the book is very interesting , I'll take a look sometime .

So, I'm curious about the vowel shift I 'll check in the Internet but seems to be a difficult issue . If you can say something to introduce my understanding it would be great . 

BTW, is there another Sydney around here ? Is the fake one so clever as the real one ? 

Madá