English Pronunciation: The SCHWA Sound

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[@ichmemyself6098]

Glad that I found this video! It beams me back 30 years in time when I was a student of English phonetics. We students were told that the term "Schwa" came from the German word "schwach" which means "weak", and obviously this is exactly how it is used, as explained in this vid, too. The phonem (or: the sound) Schwa got its peculiar name by some old German phonological pioneer (he carried out his research by far before the times when I studied Anglian 😉). So we were told by our teacher. But unfortunately I forgot the name of this researcher. And did you know that there is even another "Schwa" sound? That is a very short and totally unstressed //i// like e.g. in "because" or "endeavour" (1st syllable in each of the two examples). These are the two different types of unstressed Schwa sounds that exist, if I remember it correctly. To make it even more complicated, I remember that there must also be a stressed (!) Schwa sound. Like e.g. in "murder" (1st syllable relevant here) or in "birth". Or did I get that wrong during my studies? Can't remember it properly, I have to admit. I cannot even explain the why and how of this concept of stressed Schwa sounds. Anybody any ideas to this? I would greatly appreciate! (Didn't finish these Anglian studies for some other reasons, and unfortunately over all those years all my papers from it got lost, too).

[@CloudEnglish]

I’d be curious to have your thoughts on my History of the English Language video, since you are versed in the background

[@ichmemyself6098]

@@CloudEnglish Thank you very much! I'll have a look at your other video as soon as I find the time to. One thing I forgot to mention in my former comment: You explained very well how the Schwa works, and you brought up very suitable examples for this. Well done!

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1:16 That's exactly how we say it in Iraqi accent

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[@Free99English]

lol as a Canadian myself .... I think I’ll start saying all the A’s the same from now on.

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When it becomes the new standard pronunciation, we'll know where it all started.

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