Neutral middle vowel

• Upside-down "e"
• Sound in the middle of Italy?
• What "agenda" starts with
• One of two in Alabama
• Unaccented vowel
• "Long Island" sound
• Indistinct vowel sound
• Indistinct sound was cut short after request for silence around clubs

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."

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Schwa is the underground conceptual artwork of Bill Barker (born 1957). Barker draws deceptively simple black and white stick figures and oblong alien ships. However the artwork is not about the aliens: it is about how people react to the presence of the ...