I'm one of those that doesn't sound T's in my natural accent. A posh English person would pronounce bitter with a T sound, Americans and the Irish might say "bidder", but I just say bi, then a glottal stop, then er.
It's also common near me to silently pronounce the word "the" and replace it with a very subtle gesture like the tiniest nod of the head or the impression of a word being said, but with no actual sound. If I ask "Are you going down the pub?" people hear "Are you going down pub?" but in my mind I've said the "the", just non-verbally. And people with my accent have "heard" it that way too.
Which words for example? I'm British, but I've never noticed this trait.I was reading something the other day about this but I couldn't think of any examples.
IIN to strongly hate it when someone doesn't use proper English?
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Not being racist but i have noticed that British people don't say the t's in most words i think its cute ^.^
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I'm one of those that doesn't sound T's in my natural accent. A posh English person would pronounce bitter with a T sound, Americans and the Irish might say "bidder", but I just say bi, then a glottal stop, then er.
It's also common near me to silently pronounce the word "the" and replace it with a very subtle gesture like the tiniest nod of the head or the impression of a word being said, but with no actual sound. If I ask "Are you going down the pub?" people hear "Are you going down pub?" but in my mind I've said the "the", just non-verbally. And people with my accent have "heard" it that way too.
Which words for example? I'm British, but I've never noticed this trait.I was reading something the other day about this but I couldn't think of any examples.