On Jun 24, 2006, at 5:19 AM, Edmond Wright wrote: > The schwa is the phoneme that very many vowel sounds in unstressed > positions > tend to gravitate to, hence its being the most common phoneme As one who was taught phonics but not serious grammar, we tikes were told that that was the short sound of the individual vowels. Yes? No? Rebecca To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/