In English speaking countries " kilometre " is often pronounced, with reduced vowels on both syllables of " metre ."
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The symbol was used first by Johann Andreas Schmeller for the reduced vowel at the end of the German name " Gabe ".
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The vowel quality may be considered distinct, with reduced vowels centralized, e . g . with full } } vs reduced } }.
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They may also be called " obscure, " as there is no one-to-one correspondence between full and reduced vowels.
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However, outside Sussex, and increasingly within, it is commonly pronounced with a reduced vowel on the second syllable : " seaf'ed ".
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According to both authors, the reduced vowel ( schwa ) need not be shown in a respelling so long as syllabification and syllable stress are shown.
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He is also critical of language planners for inconsistent rules and for failing to logically resolve whether and where to omit the reduced vowel'?'.
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However, the backness distinction is not as great as that of full vowels; reduced vowels are also centralized, and are sometimes referred to by that term.
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He ranks phones according to their contribution to the " sound background " ( zvukovoj fon ) attaching the greatest importance to stressed vowels and the least to reduced vowels.
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If the pronunciation is with ( as in " grab " ), then it is not necessarily erroneous just because the dictionary gives a reduced vowel sound.
