Thursday, August 19, 2004, 22:02 GMT
Juan,
It's not the schwa that sounds like the Spanish O, it's the L (the "dark l").
Listen to the recordings of "lean" and "hill" here:
http://www.antimoon.com/terms/phonemic_transcription.htm
Hill sounds like [hi o].
It's not the schwa that sounds like the Spanish O, it's the L (the "dark l").
Listen to the recordings of "lean" and "hill" here:
http://www.antimoon.com/terms/phonemic_transcription.htm
Hill sounds like [hi o].