• Fondots@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I don’t think it’s really a schwa, at least not the way I say it

    A schwa kind of comes from the back of your mouth like you’re saying “uhh…”

    When I say possible, that last sound feels more like it’s the little burst of air from the b sort of fading into the l sound

    Then again I’m no linguist so I could be out of my depth trying to really describe the noises I’m making, and I’m not very well-equipped to separate how I talk from more general American English (I’m from Philly, and we have more than our share of little linguistic quirks, after all, we pronounce “water” as “wooder”)