This has become a pet peeve of mine and as a non-native English speaker I just don’t understand why so many people make that typo in the first place- what is it?

  • alex [they, il]OP
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    1 year ago

    Ah, sounds fair - the O is very much pronounced O in French and I didn’t realise how similar to A it would be in English. Thanks!

    • whiskyjack@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      So English is weird; any non-stressed syllable in a word has the exact same vowel sound: the schwa

      It’s basically a very neutral vowel sound because we are lazy speakers.