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Sheva
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Sheva (shē`və), in the Bible.

1 Son of Caleb.

2 David's scribe: see Shavsha Shavsha (shăv`shə), in the Bible, David's scribe. Alternate forms are Seraiah, Sheva, and Shisha.
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The Schwa Was Here written by Neal Shusterman, published by Dutton Children's Books
The scaling that is put forward here describes Ciclo Elemental as the level where students start to articulate consonants accurately even at the end of a word (dog, kid, visit, like) and begin to pronounce both consonants in easy clusters distinctly (hotels, perhaps, works), they group words in rhythmic patterns, and they start using schwa or some other central vowels (in words like "vegetables", "comfortable", in weak forms etc.
I was going to use all of those official diacritical marks and schwas and stuff, but then I thought, "Hey - what am I?
 
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