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The reason why so many Americans are confused by the symbols ʌ and ə is they are just ONE vowel phoneme in General American accents.
(Note: many Americans feel they have their unstressed /ɪ/ rather than /ə/ in some of the words shown from dictionaries in the video. But that still doesn't mean a distinct /ʌ/.)
Resources using a single /ə/ phoneme and no /ʌ/:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Merriam-Websters-Collegiate-Dictionary-Merriam-Webster/dp/0877798095
https://www.lexico.com/en/
https://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Dictionary-Pronunciation-Current-English/dp/0198631561
https://www.amazon.com/Routledge-Dictionary-Pronunciation-Current-English-ebook/dp/B06Y68Q854
https://www.amazon.com/American-English-Phonetics-Pronunciation-Practice/dp/1138588539
https://www.amazon.com/American-English-Phonetic-Transcription-Carley/dp/0367441713/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLrSFd9OVh8&t=379s
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