Comment on xkcd #2907: Schwa
Siethron@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Doesn’t the ‘nel’ in tunnel break this?
Maybe it depends on where you’re from but I pronounce “tuh-nuhl”
Really? I think it’s supposed to be silent, not a schwa. Did you mean “tuh-nl”?
Slow down your speech a bit (like listen to it in super slow mo) and you’ll realize there’s definitely a schwa sound between the N and the L sounds. Just how our mouths work moving through the shapes for them creates a schwa sound.
By that logic, should not there be a schwa after the L too? That would be absurd.
Wolf_359@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Maybe it depends on where you’re from but I pronounce “tuh-nuhl”
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 3 months ago
Really? I think it’s supposed to be silent, not a schwa. Did you mean “tuh-nl”?
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Slow down your speech a bit (like listen to it in super slow mo) and you’ll realize there’s definitely a schwa sound between the N and the L sounds. Just how our mouths work moving through the shapes for them creates a schwa sound.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 3 months ago
By that logic, should not there be a schwa after the L too? That would be absurd.