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

I think me and Randall have different definitions of schwa. Or he pronounces these words in a way I can't imagine.

Uhhh....

At least for me, I think of the sound in, say, "comma" (at the end) as the same as the vowel in "jump" or "strut", suggesting that the two vowels have merged in at least some dialects of English (although I do have some suspicion that something else might be going on).
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonologi ... mma_merger

Also reminds me of Spaghatta Nadle

chridd wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:15 am Also reminds me of Spaghatta Nadle

Wrong anyway, a single noodle is a spaghetto

chridd wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:15 am At least for me, I think of the sound in, say, "comma" (at the end) as the same as the vowel in "jump" or "strut", suggesting that the two vowels have merged in at least some dialects of English (although I do have some suspicion that something else might be going on).
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonologi ... mma_merger

Same for me; most of these vowels really do sound like the same schwa sound to me. But not quite all of them--the last vowel in "obstruction", "onions", and "London" is different, sounding (to my ears at least) just like the short i sound in "pin". Also the ones before an L, in "bumble" and "cult"; I think that's actually a syllabic L with no vowel sound.