Broken English on Instagram: "Superhero Cameraman In English, many words that end with -man are often mispronounced. In everyday speech, the last syllable “-man” is usually NOT pronounced as /man/. Instead, it becomes /mən/ — a schwa sound (weak, unstressed vowel). For example: • chairman → chair-mən • gentleman → gentle-mən • fireman → fire-mən • layman → lay-mən This happens because English is a stress-timed language, and unstressed syllables naturally reduce to a schwa. When -man refers to a