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The Letter Y

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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The Short Version of Schwa

Schwa is a sound that any vowel can make and it's where the vowel is not stressed. Most of the examples almost sound like an E or a noise, like kind of a dropping out. I feel like the schwa represents like someone saying like listen, it'd be weird if we didn't put a vowel here for the writing.

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