Fashion

[JCF]

I'm still at when someone is asked a question, they answer by saying; "I mean" and than gives the answer.

What's with that?

[Chi-town girl]

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wrote:

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[proudlyfromNJ]

Is your last name Sparticus?

[MacDUFF]

[sallybusky]

I think this is much ado about nothing. As a lifelong English-speaking American, I just said, "I dribbled peanut butter on my cotton shirt," and my only real 'hard' t sound was at the end of shirt. Gutter, putter, peanut butter..Utter a sound...the cow's udder...Does anyone really pronounce it like, "buh-TTer" or "BUTTer?" I do not. 

[x Hedge]

@proudlyfromNJ
Got that!
And come to think of it, he had a "trendy" way of pronouncing words too!

[kze]

It is regional but I'm not sure which region.  I hear it fairly often on different TV shows.

[BirkiLady]

@agador@kze  - I believe it is an English dialect along the NE coast. (We do have many dialects across the USA, you know.) Seems like a rude question to ask.

And, yes, another QVC host was born with a speech impediment. She has worked digilently with therapists to correct it, but when tired it does show up. Give her a break. She's a gem!

Hopefully, you'll rethink before beginning such an ugly thread.

[Pook]

If I ever heard anyone pronouncing words like button and cotton and butter with a strong t sound, it would sound odd.  I can't remember ever hearing the full t sound with these words from anyone except from my grandmother who was from Italy and overpronounced many things.  It just seems like it would sound forced and not natural talking.   

[jeanlake]

I work at a college and notice many young women (guys don't do this) skim over the double 't' when  speaking. Not an impediment, nor regional accent - just a trendy way for younger women to speak and it will fade away. Remember valley girl speak where they would say 'like' all the time? You seldom hear that now. Daughter works in education with high school girls and has also noticed this. If you don't hear it often, you would wonder. I'm not going to assume poster is being mean.