To distinguish between the word woman and women, we change the A to an E, but only change the pronunciation on the O.

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w(uh)man to w(ih)men

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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