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Originally Posted by jelly baby
Don't know if this has been mooted before but when did the letter 'T' in the middle of a sentence become silent?
e.g. Thir'een, Four'een, Mo'or, Compu'er, Seven'y, to name just a few.
Is enunciation not taught anymore?
Most of the young people I hear exclude the 'T' .
It drives me mad to hear the English language misused in this way.
 GRRR!!! |
Aw, don't worry about it ... Canadians did away with a lot ot "T"s a coons age ago.
Well, we sort of replaced a lot of them with "D". So, if you are ever over here, don't be surprised if you hear the natives refer to our capital city as "Oddawa", and our largest city become "T'ronna" (usually shortened to "TO". And, by the way, the weather here is brudal
We still keep it in "Thirteen"; but our vehicles have "modors" and I am sitting at my "compuder".