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I am a little bit unnotaced I'm like a schwa......

chessbot3000
Where would the English language be without the schwa? Schwas are cool. Smile
shadowslayer
do you know what that's from?
shadowslayer
a schwa is a person or thing that sits RIGHT in your blind spot and you don't know it's there it' someone points it out
ChessDweeb
The word "schwa" is from the Hebrew word שְׁוָא (šěwā’, /ʃəˈwa/, modern pronunciation: /ʃva/), meaning "nought"—it originally referred to one of the niqqud vowel points used with the Hebrew alphabet, which looks like a vertical pair of dots under a letter ("ְ") and which in modern Hebrew is pronounced either [ɛ] or not at all. This sign has two uses: one to indicate the schwa vowel-sound and one to indicate the complete absence of a vowel. These uses do not conflict because schwa is, in Hebrew, an epenthetic vowel, the equivalent of "no vowel at all".