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I called Dish Network for a technical question last night and she did it every time.
The meteorologist on the Billings, MT local news does it.
Other than that, I just hear it often and usually from someone who is 30 or less.
I know I could pinpoint other examples, but in everyday interactions with people, I'm hearing it.
I moved here from NM, so perhaps it's a Western dialect starting up. I asked because I wanted to know if anyone else was picking up on it. I have not been back to Ohio, where I grew up, so I don't know if it's happening in the Midwest.
If kids are doing it at school, then it's going to spread. It's not slang, of course. That spreads through school.
I'm glad that a substantial percentage of posters are also hearing it.
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Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth
You're talking about substituting a glottal stop for a "T".
You have no idea how cool I think your post is. Now I have a name for it! R4T rocks!
You're talking about substituting a glottal stop for a "T". It's been apart of certain dialects in England for IDK, hundreds of years. And yes, I've noticed it in the US the last decade or so. Even on TV. Annoying. I first noticed it among Native Americans whose Native language have the glottal stop. But only relatively recently have I noticed it among mainstream Americans, and only among people under about 30.
Come to think of it I have heard it on BBC. And my British friend talks like that sometimes. Not all the time though.
That actually would make a fascinating thesis project. The title could be "Socioeconomic Predictors of Selected Word Pronunciation." It would be interesting how someone's income and education level causes certain words to be pronounced differently.
If anyone knows of such a study that already exists, if it's available online, it would be interesting to see.
There's a T thief where I live too.
I keep hearing my local newscasters pronounce "Important" as "Imporant"
If you stop and think about it, we all do it, and it's always been present in at least one word in American English.
Say the word "Continental". Do you actually prounounce it "ConTinenTal"? Or do you nasalize the "o", dropping the "n", then use a stop in place of the first "T", skip the "I" and sort of grunt through it (lol), and half swallow the final "T"?
If you stop and think about it, we all do it, and it's always been present in at least one word in American English.
Say the word "Continental". Do you actually prounounce it "ConTinenTal"? Or do you nasalize the "o", dropping the "n", then use a stop in place of the first "T", skip the "I" and sort of grunt through it (lol), and half swallow the final "T"?
Pay attention now, and no cheating.
I pronounce all the letters in continental.
Although I have been told that I sometimes over pronounce my ts...
People get lazy in their speech...or all gangsta....or switch letters....this is what drives me nuts ->...it's "ASK", not "AX".
I will ask a question, not ax a question.
Why? Just why do people do this? It's not in any way grammatically or pronunciationally correct. (yeah, I know that's not a word, but you know what I mean!)
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