Do NOT say the T in these 11 Common Words | It's not just Californians!

by ericktauro
There are a lot of words where Americans would drop a T
sound but Brits wouldn’t. For example, this word: Identify.
Nine times out of ten, Americans won’t say that T. Identify.
Brits will. 5 examples of Americans dropping this T.
5 examples of Brits pronouncing the T.
So we have identify, American and British.
If you’re trying to master a natural sound in American English or you’re
curious about the differences between American and British pronunciation,
you’ll want to know this rule about T after N. What other words have a dropped T like this?
When a T comes after an N. What other words have a drop T like this?
When a T comes after an N before a vowel of diphthong,
often, Americans won’t say that T at all but most of the time Brits will.
I’m going to give you lots of examples here so you’ll totally understand the rule,
know the exceptions and start to build this habit.
The first word we’re studying is “identify” and also “identification”.
Identification, again,
nine times out of ten an American speaker will drop that T sound but a Brit won’t.
American English examples.
British English examples.
Identification or identification.
The next one. Now, you may have noticed this because it’s so common, twenty.
It’s very uncommon for an American to say the second T, [‘twen ti].
You’ll almost always heat it as [twen I].
Twenty, twenty, twenty. British English,
sometimes they do this but most of the time it [‘twen ti] for them.
The next word group: wanted, want a and want another.
Wanted. Studying speakers from the UK, I noticed they will also drop this T sometimes.
Often it’s a true T, wanted.
But not always. In American English however, 99% of the time, we’ll drop that T.
[‘wan id]
The first word we looked at, identify, had the nt plus vowel within the word.
But this rule applies to linking words together as well.
Want another, for example nt vowel. Americans will usually drop that T, Want another.
Want a. [‘wan ǝ]. Just like want to, [‘wan ǝ]
These are both examples of dropping the T after N before a vowel.
I want a Coke. That’s want a. I want a Coke.
I want to leave now. That’s want to.
I want to leave now.
Want to, want to, these two phrases sound exactly the same with this reduction.