Thread: Please check my pronunciation

Originally Posted by Mr Happy Go Lucky

Originally Posted by Lynn

I tried to keep the first recording free of regional peculiarities. (I grew up 20 miles from Manhattan, where we tend to swallow Ts in the middle of words: water = wadder, kitten = ki'en, and as you'll hear in the second recording, postpone = pospone.)

It may come as a total surprise to you, but not only does such pronunciation obtain in your neck of the woods, so it does all across the United States, as far as the eye can see.
"t" turns into "d"

Think more like the TV show "The Sopranos." The Italian-American community in New Jersey has taken this widespread tendency and raised it to an art form. (You won't hear it in those recordings though. I've learned to repress my inner Jersey girl.)