To 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 – 218 points – 3 months agow(uh)man to w(ih)men36Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsit'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 globallyhttps://c.tenor.com/l-OOGexZWZkAAAAC/tenor.gifhttps://xkcd.com/2907/I 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 globallyhttps://c.tenor.com/l-OOGexZWZkAAAAC/tenor.gifhttps://xkcd.com/2907/I don't pronunce any of those words like that. Maybe stadium I pronounce the same. Maybe.
What kind of weirdo says chick-uhn?English speakers globallyhttps://c.tenor.com/l-OOGexZWZkAAAAC/tenor.gif
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.