“Schwa is never stressed“ – FALSE

The reason why so many Americans are confused by the symbols ʌ and ə is they are just ONE vowel phoneme in General American accents. (Note: many Americans feel they have their unstressed /ɪ/ rather than /ə/ in some of the words shown from dictionaries in the video. But that still doesn’t mean a distinct /ʌ/.) Resources using a single /ə/ phoneme and no /ʌ/: I’ll Be Back from Hamilton Request a reasonably priced paperback edition of the Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation from the publisher, Taylor & Francis: at