Re: Schwas in America

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