Say the following and see if you think the a in scuba remains the same or changes:
I'm not a fan of scuba.
Do you guys want to go scuba diving?
It's a schwa either way for me, though sometimes the u-glide disappears. Then again, whilst you Americans are apparently busy collapsing A and O together, we Brits like to turn unstressed vowels into schwas as much as possible.
Last edited by Caelestion; 2021-02-24 at 07:49 PM.