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In linguistics a Schwa refers to the mid-central vowel sound in the middle of a word. The schwa appears like an upside down version of a lower-case letter e.

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The schwa is a mid-central vowel sound in the middle of the vowel chart. It sounds like the "uh" sound found in unstressed syllables in English words like "sofa" or "banana".

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