Could somebody please refresh my memory--what's a "schwa"?  Is that an "uh" ending
to a word?

DD Farms wrote:

> At 08:38 AM 6/23/2006, WANDA VANGOOR wrote:
> >Yep--grew up with it (Kentucky and Texas) and still use it a lot!
> >"It's a whole nother thing" is the equivalent of "It's a whole
> >different thing."  And none of us would ever have said "It's another
> >whole thing."
>
> DD: From the hills of East Tennesse, and all over the south in the
> 1930s on. A few more syllables tucked in, or omitted, but I am more
> used to, "Tis a whole nother thing." or, "Itzuh whole nother
> thing."  In the dialects I grew up with stuck a lot of schwas in.
> Whole, nother and thing would end in a schwa. "Thing" has three syllables.
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