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Originally Posted by Jimmy_Q The schwa sound is very much like the sound of hesitation when speaking and pausing before the next sentence or phrase about to be uttered:
"What do you call... uhh... you know, that round thing... uhh, you know, that's red all around and..." |
Whoa! Not where I come from!
The schwa, an upside-down e in dictionaries, is a silent or very, very quiet vowel. English requires a vowel in every syllable, but not all spoken syllables have clear vowel sounds.
Anyhow, that's how I learned it when I was little...
Some words with schwas:
m
urd
er
c
onsume
res
earch
org
anize
imm
igrant
Flor
ida
pist
ol
Christm
as
attend
ance
pl
atoon
r
emark
cott
on
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