Minimal Pair List Vowels 8 and 12, /ʊ/ versus /ə/ 1 pair

Since the schwa has to be unstressed while /ʊ/ is likely to be prominent, only a single pair was found in the dictionary:

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The density figure is too small to be worth calculating.

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Eriberto Do Nascimento has Ph.D. in Speech Intelligibility and Artificial Intelligence and is the founder of English Phonetics Academy