[Ads-l] Antedating of "Schwa"

[Shapiro, Fred]

schwa (OED 1895)

1882 _Transactions of the American Philological Association_ 13: 67 (JSTOR)  The preterit plural, on the contrary, owing to the accent, took the lightest possible form, which in class I. was nothing or "schwa."


Fred Shapiro

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