Re: How to write Schwa?

From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 01:34:03 +0200

Peter T. Daniels writes:

> The standard excuse is that the Hebrew word "shwa" was introduced into
> linguistics by a German linguist, who naturally spelled it as in German,
> and when it was borrowed into English, the borrowed spelling was
> retained.
>
> I always write <shwa>.

When did Hebrew start using the Roman alphabet? 

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