When I was three or four I noticed something strange about language--that if a word ends on a hard consonant and the next word begins with the same hard consonant, you only pronounce the consonant once.
So if you were saying "Cat tree" you'd only say the 't' sound once. For some reason this realization really bothered me. But after experimenting I realized that saying the 't' twice sounds really weird.
I'm not sure why this bothered me. Maybe it was that this was language rule that everybody knew but was not taught explicitly?
Anyway, the moral is that my brain has always been weird.
I say offen, and I haven't changed that one. I did grow up saying "acrost" instead of across, though. I thought it was just my mother being weird, but my boss says it too!
My mother had problems with the name Nelson, she pronounced it Neltson. I'm afraid my sisters and I made fun of her, though she knew she wasn't saying it the same way as everyone else. She had to force herself not to put the T in there. I can't recall if she put the T in other words with that construction--and can't think of any other words with that construction.
So if you were saying "Cat tree" you'd only say the 't' sound once. For some reason this realization really bothered me. But after experimenting I realized that saying the 't' twice sounds really weird.
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I pronounce both Ts.
Also, often has a t when I say it. February occasional, possibly often, has an r. That one I'm back and forth on.
Technical problem, rather than human error.
Well, that's good, at least.
In my chorus, we had a lot of discussion about when to say the same sound twice in a row and when not to. And when to do it just a little.
So I feel better that I didn't waste my time, and bad that I assumed she would ignore me.
Aw. I hate it when that happens.
I hate it when that happens.
Yeah, I do generally try to blame ignorance rather than malice, so it's even worse when I should have, and I didn't.
Kashi Mayan Harvest Bake for lunch.
So if you were saying "Cat tree" you'd only say the 't' sound once. For some reason this realization really bothered me. But after experimenting I realized that saying the 't' twice sounds really weird.
I pronounce both "t"s. (Most annoying phrase for me to say? "Edited it." Try it. [This is not a prank, like making someone say "My dixie wrecked."])
