Hi, first of all, I'm not a teacher I think its sound should be stressed on the first vowel. I've used the EZPronounce to verify its pronounciation, and the sound is stressed on the first vowel in all the clip sources (e.g Answers.com,

Hi BW2/3, If you listen the following two audio clips, you can tell the difference: rhyme: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?rhyme001.wav=rhyme crime: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?crime001.wav=crime These audio clips are from

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schewa or schwa sound? This is the definition about schwa sound in wikipedia: "Schwa is the most common vowel sound in English , the unstressed vowel in many unstressed syllables, like the 'a' in about or the 'o' in synonym . Many British

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