Schwa
Rick Murray (539) 13840 posts |
It has to be some real weirdo dialect where all of those vowels can be replaced by a schwa. To save you looking it up (like I did ;) ) if you aren’t up with all the language terminology – a schwa is an unstressed “uh” sound that you might say, such as in a word like “approximate” (uh-prox-uh-m-uh-t, though that’s not how I’d say it). |
Bernard Boase (169) 208 posts |
My firstname is often spoken with two schwas. Only in British English is the name ‘Bernard’ so devoid of clear articulation — quite unsuitable for shouting to either dog or human over a distance. |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8170 posts |
As with many things, that’s rather dependent on the dialect of English. |