"A" as in "autumn"

• Sound unstressed after chief visiting was abused
• Upside down e
• "America" begins and ends with this
• One's at either end of Alaska
• Indistinct sound from school was curtailed
• Unaccented vowel
• Upside down, lower case "e"
• Unstressed syllable was tricky, children admitted

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "'''a'''bout", represented as /ə/ in IPA and /@/ in SAMPA and X-SAMPA. 2 The character ə, an upside-down, backwards, lower-case E