>>>> Next task. Learn to pronounce Gruziya (that's how Georgia calls itself, I presume), and Tbilisi (note that the impossible initial TB is not impossible when a whole nation can pronounce it). Find Gruzian web radio or whatever to hear the sound.
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>>>Because it is not pronounced tb... it is pronounced ti or tə...
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>That's anglophonised... from what I heard, there's no schwa between t and b. You can't expect Merriam-Webster to print something that 99.9% of the users are incapable of pronouncing. There was a famous song (in Russian, though) in the sixties, titled after the city, and... BTW, do you pronounce "potbelly" or "potabelly"?
I didn't hear any schwa and it's not in the pronounciation... where is it?
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