Thoughts

mental health break ,./'"**^^$_---
I'm working on a theory that schwa was invented by linguists to make their job easier. "eh-qua-neh-mehs"
No, I see it now. At first I would pronounce it "eh-que-ni-mus" ("ni" as in nibble; "mus" to rhyme with fuss) or maybe "nee" as in knee. But I can force myself to pronounce it with 3 schwas as it's transcribed by Oxford's American. Heck you could make the middle one a schwa too. "eh-qeh-neh-mehs" Honestly I probably don't drop to schwa as often as I should when speaking. I want to stress the "ni" but I think that's not a real syllable and it should be "eh-quan-eh-mehs" with the "quan" stressed. Anyways it doesn't matter because no one has used that word this century.
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