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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jack Clarke who wrote (78)	1/2/1998 12:17:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

You are absolutely right about calling this a "flat a". Personally I love a Virginia drawl, as opposed to a Texas one; I find it graceful and fluid and soothing. As for the schwa, I was getting too nitpicky. Uh is usually associated with the short u sound and is accented while schwa is the unstressed version, a very colorless, nothing sound, but necessary for rhythm and contrast. There's a saying in diction that all vowels lead to schwa. Must the winter come? 'Must' is the short u and 'the' is schwa. Anyway,I apologise for getting far afield from spelling and grammar!