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'''ea''' as [[schwa]]: '''Hámpstead''' '''ea''' as schwa: '''Hémel Hémpstead'''

mostly schwa -'''ah '''ou''' as schwa: -'''mouth

...Pén'''h, '''K'''h'''mér''', the '''h''' is silent, or, in slower speech, [[schwa]], in English.

'''Jûliet''' traditionally has a [[schwa]] for the '''e''', *Joôlyət, though nowadays often sounds like a French-s

...toric, rhetórical, rhýthm, rhŷme, rhûbarb, rhápsody, rhêa''' ('''a''' as [[schwa]]: *rìə), '''rheûmatism, rheumátic''', and beware of '''diarrhoêa'''. ...'''dóctor, véctor, fürther, bürsar, Qátar, lêmur, fêmur'''. Exceptions to schwa: '''quâsàr, púlsàr'''.

...nd begins with the sound of '''é''' in '''thén''' and then glides into a [[schwa]]—exactly as in '''thére''' (*thãir, *thãre). ...pairs]] differ only in the presence ('''ã''') or absence ('''é''') of the schwa glide: '''vãry''' ''differ'' and '''véry''' ''much'', '''Mãry''' ''name'

...an '''ô''' sound that is more like '''ó''' plus '''ù''' than the normal [[schwa]] plus '''ù''': such speakers will tend to distinguish '''Hôlmes''' from A diphthong ending with the sound '''í''' adds a schwa before final '''l''', so that '''ŏil''' rhymes with '''lŏyal''', and '''r

where unstressed, schwa -'''ar though contemporaries pronounced it ending in schwa: '''[[Edward Elgar|Élgàr]]

...t member. When a short vowel is unstressed, it generally surfaces as the [[schwa]] [ə], similar to the vowels beginning and ending the English word ''aroma

...h''' (in which the '''h''' is silent), a diphthong which approximates to [[schwa]] followed by the sound of '''ù'''/'''oò''': '''óver, ônly, bôat, flô The sound is a stressed [[schwa]] in [[American English]] ([[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] [ə]), a

BrE (which pronunciations are shown below) '''h''' silent, '''a''' as schwa, -əm; AmE -'''hám

'''than''' dh-; '''a''' as [[schwa]]: only '''thán''' at dictation speed ...'''á''' sound, but when a conjunction or relative pronoun it normally has schwa, *dhət: '''Î dôn’t thínk that thát was the sâme ván as the òne th

'''uh''' *ə (the [[schwa]] sound alone), '''úh''' *ú, AmE equivalent to BrE '''ër

..., '''nún''' ''God'' (= '''nòne''' ''negative''). The sound is a stressed [[schwa]] in [[American English]], [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] [ʌ] in -'''us''' is an ending with the schwa sound, most often in names: '''Màrcus, Dêlius, Míngus, Tåurus, Sagittã

'''Nadìne''': normally '''a''' as [[schwa]], though [[Chuck Berry]], in his song of that name, pronounces it "Naydìn ...Orleans"); the least local is '''Neŵ Orlêans''', with optional '''a''' as schwa sounded

...ith the schwa sound. It is as if the '''c''' itself were being pronounced schwa: '''McGóugh''' (*MəGóff), '''McCúrry, McCŏrmack, McKénzie''' = '''Mac

...cket, becòme''', except in Australia and New Zealand, where the sound is [[schwa]]. '''er''' is usually unstressed schwa, with '''r''' sounded in AmE and Scottish English: '''fóster, āfter, wör

...sh '''''air''''' is similar, but the Māori vowel does not slide off into [[schwa]].

...t member. When a short vowel is unstressed, it generally surfaces as the [[schwa]] [ə], similar to the vowels beginning and ending the English word ''aroma

'''efféct''' ''result'' í- or ə-: when schwa = '''afféct''' ''cause'' '''énmity''', cf. '''énemy''', with added [[schwa]]