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Showerthoughts

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To distinguish between the word woman and women, we change the A to an E, but only change the pronunciation on the O. (lemm.ee)
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w(uh)man to w(ih)men

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (3 children)

it's normal for unstressed short vowels in English to all come out as a "schwa", which the most common phoneme of the language.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_central_vowel

[–] Assman 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What kind of weirdo says chick-uhn?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

English speakers globally

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't pronunce any of those words like that. Maybe stadium I pronounce the same. Maybe.