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Example sentences for: schwa
How can you use “schwa” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
This is the way organism is transcribed in the key; but the text itself shows a full schwa, which indicates that perhaps Wells vacillated on this point himself.
For example, the symbol “uh’ is shown in the key as representing schwa, yet throughout the book it is used to represent the vowel sound in English ball or raw (BUHbe `grandmother,' puhGRUHM `pogrom').
The schwa is anathema in this pattern: uh substitutes for it.
Also, the editors have avoided the schwa \?\, preferring to resurrect the antediluvian system used by Merriam-Webster in the Second Edition of their Unabridged (and since abandoned by almost everyone).
A Mexican newcomer to Santa Fe once told me that he had been much puzzled by hearing rich Anglo tourists extol the charm of La Fonda (in English pronounced like fond plus schwa).
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