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The Schwa Sound
All of these words have stress on the first syllable. The schwa sounds are in bold print. If there are two vowels, like ou, there is just one schwa sound.
| buzzword | jealous | justify | effort | version |
| country | journalist | humorous | front runner | balance |
| flourish | journey | instance | comfortable* | vigorous |
| function | junk | summarize | recognize | work |
| funding | justice | company | rigorous | worst |
| * This word is often reduced to: cumf-‘tu-bl or cumf-tur-bl. | ||||
All of these words have stress on the 2nd syllable. The schwa sounds are in bold print.
| because | appeal | statistics | condition | convey |
| encourage | apply | traditional | confirm | correction |
| accrual | attempt | combine | consumer | development |
| addition | attend | compete | contain | horrendous |
| agenda | among | observe | control | today |
| agreement | material | concern | convenient* | tomorrow |
| *This word sounds like con-veen-yunt. | ||||
These words have stress on the 3rd syllable: nondeductible, unpretentious, demonstration, introduce
| 750 Business Words | Schwa Sound Main Page |
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