JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months agoTo distinguish between the word woman and women, we change the A to an E, but only change the pronunciation on the O.message-squaremessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1194file-text
arrow-up1194message-squareTo distinguish between the word woman and women, we change the A to an E, but only change the pronunciation on the O.JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square22fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaregrozzle@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 months agoit’s normal for unstressed short vowels in English to all come out as a “schwa”, which the most common phoneme of the language. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_central_vowel
it’s normal for unstressed short vowels in English to all come out as a “schwa”, which the most common phoneme of the language.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_central_vowel