Conversation started Jan 24, 2016 at 23:45.
Araucaria
Araucaria
Jan 24, 2016 23:45
@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. Because people are sometimes ignorant. The answers there are wrong. The reason that the pronunciations that Listenever heard are weird is because the books was bein gread. Whenever people read stuff as opposed to communicating, their pronunciation goes all weird and affected.
 
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Nihilist_Frost
Nihilist_Frost
Jan 25, 2016 01:52
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Q: Which pronunciation is more prevalent; /ə/ or /ӕ/?

Listenever at hearing one has got a fortune . . . at last . . . whom I had never heard . . . at a table . . . (Jane Eyre) If Jim Dale (who reads the Harry Potter series) had read Jane Eyre, I think he would have pronounced all the a sounds as schwa /ə/; yet a recording on Librivox.org has the /ӕ/ sound...

pronunciation
should be reopened.
it's a legitimate question about how schwas work.
and vowel reduction.
voted
actually, it seems like a question about appropriate speech styles, primarily.
 
Conversation ended Jan 25, 2016 at 1:55.