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Why is the second o in "Dorothy" silent, like Dorothy from the wizard of Oz?
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LandFrog Why is the second o in "Dorothy" silent, like Dorothy from the wizard of Oz? It isn't silent, it's usually pronounced as an "uh" sound, though some speakers may shorten it to the point that it is little more than a transition between the "R" and the "TH" sounds, such that it may be hard to tell it's there at all.
- LandFrog Why is the second o in "Dorothy" silent, like Dorothy from the wizard of Oz?
- It isn't silent, it's usually pronounced as an "uh" sound, though some speakers may shorten it to the point that it is little more than a transition between the "R" and the "TH" sounds, such that it may be hard to tell it's there at all.
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LandFrogWhy is the second o in "Dorothy" silent, like Dorothy from the wizard of Oz?
It isn't silent, it's usually pronounced as an "uh" sound, though some speakers may shorten it to the point that it is little more than a transition between the "R" and the "TH" sounds, such that it may be hard to tell it's there at all.
0It's a schwa, as is every vowel in an unstressed syllable in English.
0Many words in English contain a deleted syllable — a syllable with the vowel schwa (/?/) which is omitted from the pronunciation. This causes the pronounced word to have one less syllable than it appears to have as a written word. The most common case in which schwa deletion occurs is before "r", but it also occurs before "l" and "n" and occasionally before other consonants. Schwa deletion o
0LandFrogWhy is the second o in "Dorothy" silent,
It is not always. It seems to vary among people with different accents.
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