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.
IIN to strongly hate it when someone doesn't use proper English?
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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.