Example sentences for: schwa

How can you use “schwa” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • ” (To the Anglo ear the final o , an a , and perhaps the e of calle are schwa.)

  • The schwa is anathema in this pattern: uh substitutes for it.

  • 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').

  • 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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