Button. Cotton. Mountain. Bill Clinton. We Americans say buttn, cottn, mountn whereas other folks actually pronounce vowels between the 't' and the 'n'. Freaks.
We have a lazy 't'; there's no follow-through. It even makes some peoples' "winter" and "winner" or "planter" and "planner" sound the same. Or it becomes a 'd' in words like 'butter'. We do pronounce all of our 'r's though. Well, maybe except in New England.
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We have a lazy 't'; there's no follow-through. It even makes some peoples' "winter" and "winner" or "planter" and "planner" sound the same. Or it becomes a 'd' in words like 'butter'. We do pronounce all of our 'r's though. Well, maybe except in New England.
My t's show up in all those words. I do however say cottn.
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