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Schwa vs U - What's the difference?

schwa | u |

As a noun schwa

is schwa.

As a letter u is

the letter u with an acute accent.

schwa

English

(wikipedia schwa)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "a bout", represented as // in SAMPA and X-SAMPA.
  • The character , an upside-down, backwards, lower-case E

    • Synonyms

    * (indeterminate central vowel) natural vowel, neutral vowel

    Anagrams

    *

    u

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=t, next=v, image=

    Etymology 1

    Minuscule variation of U, a modern variation of classical Latin V, from seventh century Old Latin adoption of Old Italic letter .

    Letter

  • The twenty-first letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script) * (other scripts) Cyrillic * (wikipedia "u")

    Etymology 2

    Symbol

    (head)
  • symbol for unified atomic mass unit
  • ).
  • (label) up quark

    • See also

    {{Letter , page=U , NATO=Uniform , Morse=··– , Character=U , Braille=? }} Image:Latin U.png, Capital and lowercase versions of U , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter U.png, Uppercase and lowercase U in Fraktur ----