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Why do so many people write Mastadon instead of Mastodon? (jlai.lu)
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This has become a pet peeve of mine and as a non-native English speaker I just don't understand why so many people make that typo in the first place- what is it?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

So English is weird; any non-stressed syllable in a word has the exact same vowel sound: the schwa

It's basically a very neutral vowel sound because we are lazy speakers.