@JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 1 month agoTo distinguish between the word woman and women, we change the A to an E, but only change the pronunciation on the O.message-square36fedilinkarrow-up1258arrow-down140file-text
arrow-up1218arrow-down1message-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 • 1 month agomessage-square36fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@grozzle@lemm.eelinkfedilink21•1 month 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
minus-square@BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilink4•edit-21 month agoI don’t pronunce any of those words like that. Maybe stadium I pronounce the same. Maybe.
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
What kind of weirdo says chick-uhn?
English speakers globally
https://c.tenor.com/l-OOGexZWZkAAAAC/tenor.gif
https://xkcd.com/2907/
I don’t pronunce any of those words like that. Maybe stadium I pronounce the same. Maybe.