pron. of just

[Matthew Gordon]

The first pronunciation of 'just' listed by m-w.com is /j at st/ where /@/=
schwa. I think most of us would argue that this IS the usual pronunciation
of adj. 'just' and even of adv. 'just' at least when it bears some stress in
a sentence. They use a schwa there b/c that's the usual phonetic symbol for
this sound (or one of them anyway).


On 2/27/09 1:00 PM, "Tom Zurinskas" <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> ... I don't think anyone would argue that the
> first pronunciation of "just" by m-w.com is usual.  It's a solid short u.  Why
> m-w.com uses a schwa there I'll never know.  Unfortunately, for all short u's
> they use \   \ as u in abut, (an upside down "e" that apparently won't copy
> paste) .  Very very unfortunate notation.  Everyone understands using a letter
> "u" for the "uh" sound.
>

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