![]() ![]() Every vowel in English, if unstressed, has the potential of being a schwa. ![]() Roughly pronounced like “uh,” it’s been referred to as the laziest sound we can make, and we utter it more than we realize. Simply put, the schwa is a reduced, neutral vowel sound written as an upside-down and backwards e, ə, in the International Phonetic Alphabet (the universal chart of symbols, representing all the sounds languages make). Why? Because it finally pays tribute to the most frequent vowel sound in English: the schwa. How do I love thee? Let me count the schwas.Not exactly what Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote in Sonnet 43, but we like it all the same. ![]()
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