2006-09-22 13:41:50 · 7 answers · asked by opitmdotcom 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
From a linguistic point of view, it has to do with where the tongue ends up in your mouth. If you put forth effort to pronounce the T then you can. People just speak quickly without trying to ennunciate.
This is true of many words. Think of "button." Many words that end in -ing (most do pronounce the g). You have to put forth a little extra effort when speaking in order to make these sounds.
2006-09-23 04:15:34 · answer #1 · answered by Melanie L 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
This is not actually laziness, in many varieties of English, glottal stop is an allophone of /t/ in its various positions.
The glottal stop or voiceless glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in many spoken languages.
However, in many varieties of English, glottal stop is an allophone of /t/ in final position, as in habit or pat. In such accents as Cockney and Estuary English, the glottal stop is also an allophone of /t/ in medial position as well, as in Batman, bottle, water, and fatter. In East Anglian varieties, glottal-stop realisations of /t/ can be found in word-initial position, if the /t/ is in an unstressed syllable (so is often found in the words to, today, tomorrow) and is not in tone group–initial position. So, in "I'm going to town tomorrow", the /t/ in to and tomorrow is readily realised as a glottal stop. In other dialects, a /t/ followed by a syllabic /n/ is often replaced by a glottal stop, as for example in button or fatten. (This may be obscured if the speaker consciously articulates consonants for clarity.)
2006-09-25 06:26:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
...for the same reason the president says nuky-ler instead of nucular. Lazy or stupid. I hope its just lazy.
2006-09-22 21:11:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
because they are lazy and don't care to have good speech patterns.
There are many words like that....i hear people say acrost instead of across.....i hear people say irregardless instead of regardless...........I hear people say I done that...insead of I did that....the list goes on and on..
2006-09-22 20:49:00 · answer #4 · answered by Chef Susy--Cookin it up! 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
cause they´re jigaboos like me
2006-09-22 20:49:29 · answer #5 · answered by thedeliciousone14 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You might be a Redneck if. . . .
2006-09-23 01:32:40 · answer #6 · answered by Vicki70 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I dunno
2006-09-22 20:44:09 · answer #7 · answered by Dfirefox 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋