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grozzle@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

it’s normal for unstressed short vowels in English to all come out as a “schwa”, which the most common phoneme of the language.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_central_vowel

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