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schewa sound

I was looking at a book and it sort of mentioned that the schewa sound is the most common sound in English and want to know what is the 'schewa sound'?
  

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The schwa is the name for the upside-down lower-case e that represents the most neutral, middle open vowel in unstressed English syllables: just let your completely relaxed mouth and slightly dropped jaw utter an ' uh ' sound, as in the second syllable of jux ta position. The schwa sound and / i / are, I believe, the only two vowel sounds to occur in unstressed syllables, with schwa much the commoner. California Jim should have more to say on this matter.

— Mister Micawber

  • The schwa is the name for the upside-down lower-case e that represents the most neutral, middle open vowel in unstressed English syllables: just let your completely relaxed mouth and slightly dropped jaw utter an ' uh ' sound, as in the second syllable of jux ta position.
  • The schwa sound and / i / are, I believe, the only two vowel sounds to occur in unstressed syllables, with schwa much the commoner.
  • California Jim should have more to say on this matter.
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The schwa is the name for the upside-down lower-case e that represents the most neutral, middle open vowel in unstressed English syllables: just let your completely relaxed mouth and slightly dropped jaw utter an 'uh' sound, as in the second syllable of juxtaposition. The schwa sound and /i/ are, I believe, the only two vowel sounds to occur in unstresse
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schewa or schwa sound?

This is the definition about schwa sound in wikipedia: "Schwa is the most common vowel sound in English
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It's schwa, not schewa!
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0I was just trying to figure the same thing out. thanks I heard.0-
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0can I find out what the musical note is? How it's wrote as a note? is that possible?0-
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0 It isn't written as a muscial note. Where did you get that idea from? 0-
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01cite10Nona The Brit12cite10It isn't written as a muscial note. Where did you get that idea from?12blockquote
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00It might not be such a bad idea after all -- someone should invent it! Imagine each vowel sound having a different note. There should be about enough for all using all the
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0 Yes, it would be more creative than do-rei-mi's. 0-
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