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14. In Texas, it's very impordant to support the awl industry

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Sun May 26, 2024, 04:39 PM

May 2024

I kid the Texans. I have family there.

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Alright already, enough of the only one "t" sound in the word important. [View all] jaxexpat May 2024 OP

I have no idea what you are talking about? RandomNumbers May 2024 #1

Younger people mostly. viva la May 2024 #39

Me, neither - not all of it claudette May 2024 #78

I don't think it is inentional. nt Shermann May 2024 #2

I don't even know how you would say it.... Fla Dem May 2024 #3

I sometimes hear it pronounced "im poe ' end". niyad May 2024 #30

Same Rebl2 May 2024 #67

"...enough of the only one "t" sound in the word important...evidence proving that the species is ever accelerating LudwigPastorius May 2024 #4

Get back with me when you're sure it's really nothing after all. jaxexpat May 2024 #7

I'm just afraid to ask you... LudwigPastorius May 2024 #10

Depends ProfessorGAC May 2024 #21

I'm afraid I'll have to look that up in the libary. viva la May 2024 #41

You're listening to a cliched 1940s Cockney if you're hearing "haitch" and "you" muriel_volestrangler May 2024 #50

I remember the linguistics prof making us all pronounce: viva la May 2024 #54

Ah yes, I've heard that one before muriel_volestrangler May 2024 #60

They're not "supposed" to sound different. Foolacious May 2024 #69

plus, fertogrphfy mahina May 2024 #65

It's a thing to ponder, for sure. jaxexpat May 2024 #98

"It's pronounced 'aitch' " (Mitchell & Webb) sl8 May 2024 #106

They should be stuffed head-first into a hot chimley. Hermit-The-Prog May 2024 #99

I think it is something akin to valley talk HAB911 May 2024 #5

Like, you know, uh, duh. C'mon man. That's so far out it gags me with a spoon. Cool? jaxexpat May 2024 #8

It's very common in Brooklyn and Bronx dhol82 May 2024 #61

I'd rather hear I mean, than so Marthe48 May 2024 #34

I'm with you on the "So", Marthe. Diamond_Dog May 2024 #109

I've noticed that too! It's a younger person thing, I think. viva la May 2024 #53

I di-un notice. Qutzupalotl May 2024 #6

Bless you! jaxexpat May 2024 #9

Makes me crazy when announcers and reporters do that mcar May 2024 #11

It's like they've joined a club or something. jaxexpat May 2024 #12

I recall a whole NPR piece GenThePerservering May 2024 #13

In Texas, it's very impordant to support the awl industry gulliver May 2024 #14

It's the awl bidness SARose May 2024 #107

It's been happening for years. Ms. Toad May 2024 #15

Its more an intentional disruption of normalcy than an affectation. It is political. jaxexpat May 2024 #16

All I can tell you is that it has happenned around here for years - at least a decade. Ms. Toad May 2024 #25

Only in the broadest terms. in a village astride a stream there were the Wests and the Easts. jaxexpat May 2024 #100

I am in my 50s, and I drop the middle T most times obamanut2012 May 2024 #125

I hear local TV newscasters say things like "needs fixed" instead of "needs to be fixed." Diamond_Dog May 2024 #110

That idiom is popular here in Western Pennsylvania. John1956PA May 2024 #138

The emergent glottal stop in the broader American sphere... Hekate May 2024 #17

If only.......... jaxexpat May 2024 #20

The pronunciation of Clinton as Clin'on was driving me buggy. Then I decided that's all it was, as I realized there were Hekate May 2024 #85

Whhhale made me think of this: happybird May 2024 #119

Had a funny experience in a grad seminar with an English prof. I said "whale" with the H... Hekate May 2024 #120

lol jesus WhiskeyGrinder May 2024 #18

Colloquial culture, even dialectical differences, okay. jaxexpat May 2024 #24

"Too arbitrary to be organic." Yeah welcome to linguistics. Organic is arbitrary. WhiskeyGrinder May 2024 #26

I dunno Rebl2 May 2024 #73

Thanks for the "dunno." That made me smile. John1956PA May 2024 #142

I am in my 50s, I do that, everyone i know does obamanut2012 May 2024 #128

I am in my 50s and do not say that middle T obamanut2012 May 2024 #127

As bad if not worse than the mispronunciation of 'pecan' Torchlight May 2024 #19

Yeah! What Torchlight Said! ProfessorGAC May 2024 #22

I always pronounce "pecan" the same exact way Xavier Breath May 2024 #33

These are pee-cans: LeftInTX May 2024 #43

I see. Xavier Breath May 2024 #48

I'm not getting involvedmin that one. SarahD May 2024 #52

I don't blame you. I avoided my own pronunciation on purpose Torchlight May 2024 #72

I watch "The View." Whoopi pronounces "yesterday" as "yestaday," Sarah's "always" has no L, Sunny betsuni May 2024 #23

Well then you must be apoplectic over the mispronunciation of nuclear Raven123 May 2024 #27

As much as I despised the Shrub dpibel May 2024 #49

In the south is often IM-PORDANT Skittles May 2024 #28

awwww, well bless your heart being so open with your opinion Alpeduez21 May 2024 #36

The dropped T is NOT an accent. vanlassie May 2024 #46

it's not an ACCENT Skittles May 2024 #56

A whole region (the south) has a mispronunciation? That's not the result of an accent? Alpeduez21 May 2024 #89

I said SOME, not every here mispronounces Skittles May 2024 #121

I've hear it as piddyprints May 2024 #58

MTG says impordant and it drives me up a wall. Hassin Bin Sober May 2024 #123

Every time I hear someone say that singular "t", I am reminded of a very old niyad May 2024 #29

Yes! happybird May 2024 #31

English has some silent consonants... Think. Again. May 2024 #32

Many of my family members like to add an S where none exists. Xavier Breath May 2024 #35

Same with my in laws. So, annoying...New Braunfels became News Braunsfels LeftInTX May 2024 #45

I have heard Diamond_Dog May 2024 #111

That one has a long history and is regional Blues Heron May 2024 #62

I always thought... Think. Again. May 2024 #66

Good article on the history of height vs. heighth here Blues Heron May 2024 #74

Thanks! Think. Again. May 2024 #75

Never had Luthiers in my village. Never even saw one un-il I was at the universi-y jaxexpat May 2024 #101

I have often benefitted greatly by hearing what people say Alpeduez21 May 2024 #37

I've been noticing that too. viva la May 2024 #38

if you can understand what they're saying bigtree May 2024 #40

Everyone's entitled to a linguistic pet peeve or three, and I understand that it's important to you. 0rganism May 2024 #42

OK, here's a six and a half minute video on the pronunciation of "important". Jim__ May 2024 #44

A lot of people in the South pronounce it "impordant". Aristus May 2024 #47

Nobody tell'em about interest or interesting n/t Alpeduez21 May 2024 #51

Or "genelmen" or the ad where the woman yorkster May 2024 #83

You pronounce the first T? Are you trying to sound British? Scrivener7 May 2024 #55

Try removing the "r." SarahD May 2024 #57

There is an ad for Kuhl clothes where the voiceover has a fairly extreme case of what you are noticing Blues Heron May 2024 #59

Negociations are in progerse. (nt) Pinback May 2024 #63

It bugs me when empty G says 'impordent" mahina May 2024 #64

And how... after centuries... has "lose" become... LOOSE??????? WarGamer May 2024 #68

Prolly a lost cause... Thunderbeast May 2024 #70

At high school choir concert earlier this year... Bettie May 2024 #71

ImporDant Stardust Mirror May 2024 #76

Dropping the first R in infrastructure... Easterncedar May 2024 #77

That kind of dropped T is a super common feature Happy Hoosier May 2024 #79

An American, in my 50s, I drop that middle T obamanut2012 May 2024 #130

Worse than that is claudette May 2024 #80

Little Miss Persnickity Language Person here. SarahD May 2024 #82

I keep wondering claudette May 2024 #95

You rule! jaxexpat May 2024 #102

I gave up awhile ago intrepidity May 2024 #81

Feb-you-erry. (Shudder emoji) n/t dobleremolque May 2024 #84

Do you hate it a little or a lot? Iggo May 2024 #86

Maybe you're alright, maybe. It's the "im-por-unt" that's offensive, jaxexpat May 2024 #103

"One T's" first cousin imporDant is my pet earburn. Stinky The Clown May 2024 #87

I know exactly what the OP is saying.. . Patterson May 2024 #88

You pernickety people must be a real gas at parties. GenThePerservering May 2024 #90

Might it be a result of texting? BlueSpot May 2024 #91

Hmmm, a language based on auto-correction programming. jaxexpat May 2024 #104

I'm confused. As a oldster I never pronounce the second T flamingdem May 2024 #92

Are you talking about absolutely no "t" sound at all... Silent3 May 2024 #93

Excellent point and no. There is no "t" sound to start the "tant" in "important" in my experience. jaxexpat May 2024 #97

Pedantifico! JoseBalow May 2024 #94

It doesn't bother me canetoad May 2024 #96

umm . . . John Shaft May 2024 #105

I have no idea or care what this is about but apparently 107 people do. nt doc03 May 2024 #108

I used to think this was. Miami problem malaise May 2024 #112

It could be worse than skipping a consonant ColinC May 2024 #113

Do you pronounce the "t" in "often?" MineralMan May 2024 #114

Depends, that "t" is usually expressed as a subtle* pause not followed by the tongue tapping "tuh" sound, similarly... jaxexpat May 2024 #116

I don't pronounce the "b" in "subtle". LeftInTX May 2024 #118

Of course you don't. but............Would you, though, if all the cool kids in the gang were doing it? jaxexpat May 2024 #122

You have been releatedly told this isn't a socisl media Zoomer thing obamanut2012 May 2024 #132

So, then, what? I was repeatedly told we were protecting America with our war in Vietnam, jaxexpat May 2024 #135

No. I even spelled it: "offen" the first time I wrote it. (I usually got 100's in spelling) LeftInTX May 2024 #117

How about T as D. "Liddle" for little. yorkster May 2024 #115

Such matters of accent don't bother me Emrys May 2024 #124

I am in my 50s and do this and always have obamanut2012 May 2024 #126

They add a whole stop though so it sounds like Deh ist - they take out the T and the N Blues Heron May 2024 #131

IWho is "they"? obamanut2012 May 2024 #133

whoever is doing it - its mostly a hipster youtube thing in my experience Blues Heron May 2024 #134

Couple more - comfortable pronounced come-fer-ta-bull Blues Heron May 2024 #129

Lots of people don't like the fact that language is fluid. But, it is. mucifer May 2024 #136

You'd love it here in Texas!!!!!!!! Seriously, though, this is one mechanism for language to evolve, you don't ... marble falls May 2024 #137

Lately, I've been noticing that a lot contributors on NPR tom_kelly May 2024 #139

i will continue to use the t wrd as i see fit , i cant even stand the use of his name. and there we are . AllaN01Bear May 2024 #140

Sounds about perfec_. jaxexpat May 2024 #141

Why about those who think a zero is an "oh"? GreenWave May 2024 #143

Take it up with James Bond n/t Emrys May 2024 #144

During a recent 5 day hospitalization, I was asked my birthdate... 3catwoman3 May 2024 #145