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Latest post Fri, Oct 23 2009 1:09 AM by Avangi. 3 replies.
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Anonymous  +  950062 Thu, 22 Oct 09 08:10 PM
what is a lazy vowel? and can we have an example!
Avangi  +  950129 Thu, 22 Oct 09 10:21 PM
I didn't find anything in our house search engine, but Google has some stuff on foreign sites that might help:



http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=91560579520

http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/12715753131277171865624/p0000027.htm

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Philip  +  950179 Fri, 23 Oct 09 12:21 AM
Thanks for you second link, Avangi.  It's much more thorough than what I would have offered.  I'd never heard the ubiquitous schwa called a lazy vowel.  Always learning!
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Avangi  +  950208 Fri, 23 Oct 09 01:09 AM
I'll be happy to take that as a compliment, although it mainly passed from my eye to my finger, only very lightly grazing my brain. 
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