w(uh)man to w(ih)men
it’s normal for unstressed short vowels in English to all come out as a “schwa”, which the most common phoneme of the language.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_central_vowel
What kind of weirdo says chick-uhn?
English speakers globally
English phonetics suck more than any other language ever spoke or tried to learn
That’s cuz English is a bully that beats up all the other languages and steals their words
Nah fam… the leader took the lead, then he lead while wearing lead. This is pure English, no loanwords.
Yes, English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.
nah i say wuh-man and wih-min
It must only be in some places because where I live in the UK both parts change pronunciation.
Except by your own pronunciation guide:
w(uh)man to w(ih)men
Yeah that’s the spelling part OP is referring to