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xkcd #2907: Schwa (imgs.xkcd.com)

https://xkcd.com/2907

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Doug's cousin, the one from London, runs a Bumble love cult.

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[-] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

The point about stress is interesting. I've been playing with pronouncing the phrase, and almost everything tends toward [ɐ] when I speak the syllables one at a time, even the ones I marked with and pronounce as a schwa in normal speech. The notable exceptions are the final schwas in "obstruction" and "onions", which tend toward [ɪ], and the -nel of "tunnel", which is something like [nɫ] (vocalic ɫ) ~ [nəɫ].

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