How prevalent is the silent "t"

[Tom Zurinskas]

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.



Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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>From: "Landau, James" <James.Landau at NGC.COM>
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>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Re: "cigarette bat" referred to as "schoocher"?
>Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 12:16:34 -0400
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>Poster:       "Landau, James" <James.Landau at NGC.COM>
>Subject:      Re: "cigarette bat" referred to as "schoocher"?
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>The name "cigarette" bat suggests something is on fire, so could
>"schoocher" be a variant of "scorcher"?
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>    - Jim Landau
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sarah Lang [mailto:slang at UCHICAGO.EDU]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:56 AM
>Subject: "cigarette bat" referred to as "schoocher"?
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>So I just heard this term today and I cannot find a record of it
>anywhere (I tried possible variant spellings, or even mispronunciation).
>Is anyone familiar with "schoocher"? (Scoob/ed is the only thing I can
>find that is even somewhat related . . . .)
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