<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sayrer" class="u-url mention">@<span>sayrer</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@hsivonen" class="u-url mention">@<span>hsivonen</span></a></span> I don't think you'd sound like a rube. This is just part of the general trend in American English to replace all vowels with schwa.</p>