Schwa
Schwa - a lazy vowel that occurs in an unaccented (unstressed) syllable in multisyllable words. Schwa sounds more like a short ‘u’ or short ‘i’ as opposed to a pure short or long vowel sound: for example, wag-ən and el-ə-phant.
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