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Re: Schwas in America

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 8, 2004, 19:34
Quoting Emily Zilch <emily0@...>:

> { Andreas Johansson } > > "I'm afraid I've got a schwa in the first syllable of 'America' (when > speaking English) [snip]" > > to tie off this snarky flamebait, let me note that many people have a > schwa in BOTH [a]s of "America" when speaking English, or even have > only one ("Merr'cuh").
Flame-bait? I assure you that was not the intention. For the record, I do have two schwas in "America" - [@'mErIk@]. Actually, it may be closer to [6'mErIk6], since I tend to lower schwas that correspond to written 'a'. Still higher than what I use for "short u", tho. I only spoke of the first one because that was the one Hemmo used as an example. Andreas