schwa, shwa
(noun) a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables
Source: WordNet® 3.1
schwa (plural schwas)
(phonetics) An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /É™/ in IPA.
Synonyms: natural vowel, neutral vowel
Coordinate terms: a-schwa, schwi
Hyponym: schwar
The character É™.
• chaws
Source: Wiktionary
15 April 2025
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
