How prevalent is the silent "t"

[James Harbeck]

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>>  >Loss of the [t] after [n] is pretty common in these parts too. We
>>  >tend to lose or reduce that phoneme wherever we find it, except
>>  >initially. But it's not universal, and any given person probably
>>  >won't do it every time with any given word. It's still part of the
>>  >citation form of the words, naturally.
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>>  Clarification: by "that phoneme" I meant /t/. And by reduce I meant
>>  flap, assimilate, convert to glottal stop, et cetera.
>>
>>  James Harbeck.
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