Does American English use the schwa - neutral vowel sound - more than other types of English? |
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Votes: 327
Comments: 4
Added: September 2004
| arnquist - 1st October 2006 21:05 |
| This pole needs tobe like the ones that have 4 or more options so we know who thinks what, American, British or other English speakers. I'm American and I voted yes. |
| Anne - 10th November 2007 19:42 |
| To arnquist it's poll not pole - unless you are posting it from the north pole and over there polls are poles. Anyway, you are quite right about the options. Well, I am a Pole and British English is my second language. |
| Guillermo - 14th March 2008 17:31 |
| I am an Ecuadorian and I am bilingual. American Englsh is my first/second language. Yes American English uses schwa more frequently than English English. |
| Don - 6th February 2009 12:52 |
| It depends a lot on the dialect, too. Working-class Liverpool is almost all schwa and glottal stops - hardly another vowel to be found. American English, in general, uses more different vowels that UK dialects. |
