Word: schwa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that it would tell even a college-educated person what he needed to know 999 times out of 1,000. Illustrated with drawings and some 15,000 sentences showing how words are used, the dictionary is simple, easy to use. Handiest short cut: an inverted e (a), called the schwa (from Hebrew), takes the place of eight symbols customarily used to represent the same sound-the unaccented vowel in about, pencil, lemon, etc. On his definition of hearing Dr. Thorndike wasted no big words: "Sense by which sound is perceived. The old man's hearing is poor...
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