"Long Island" sound

• Stress-free character seemingly calm, having walked away initially
• Upside-down "e," in phonetics
• Common sound coming from some Bosch washers
• Indistinct sound was cut short after request for silence around clubs
• The "e" sound in "tandem"
• Symbol in pronunciation guides
• Indicator of a neutral vowel sound
• Soft vowel sound

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1895, from German Schwa , ultimately from Hebrew shewa "a neutral vowel quality," literally "emptiness."

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Schwa (Ә ә; italics: Ә ә ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script . It is currently used in Abkhaz , Bashkir , Dungan , Itelmen , Kalmyk , Kazakh , Kurdish and Tatar . It was also used in Azeri , Karakalpak and Turkmen before those languages switched to the ...