Question

etcetera (et ‘se tә rә) n.

a Latin word meaning an unspecified number of additional things or persons
unlisted additional items
What diacritical mark is used to show the pronunciation of the e and a in the third and fourth syllables?

(1 point)
Responses

schwa
schwa

parentheses
parentheses

noun
noun

apostrophe

Answer 1

The correct response is **schwa**. The diacritical mark used to denote the pronunciation of the 'e' and 'a' in 'et cetera' as /ə/ is called the schwa.