How prevalent is the silent "t"

Benjamin Barrett gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM
Thu Jun 7 22:46:26 UTC 2007


I pronounce all three sometimes with and sometimes without the "t". My
guess is most AmE speakers do the same. BB

Tom Zurinskas wrote:
> I believe that most words ending in "t" are silent or glattalized in most
> English  accents.  Someone wrote below.
>
> I'm just wondering about the pronunciation of words like 'entertainment'
> 'center' 'international' I mostly hear these words pronounced by dropping
> the middle 't' so it would sound like enertainment, cener, and inernational.
> But there are also others who would pronounced these words without dropping
> the middle 't' could anyone know where the pronunciation originated and how
> come others won't drop the middle 't' although I'm not saying it's wrong,
> just wanna know so that if someone would ask the difference atleast I would
> know the answer. Thanks in advance guys.
>
>

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