Film Noir Buff Style Forum / You Say Tomahto and i sat Tomato

fxh · 2014-02-03 05:28:02

Mmh

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Dudley Clarke · 2014-02-03 06:01:53

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steve mcqueen fan · 2014-02-03 06:24:45

I've noticed in the last, maybe, 5 or 10 years a change in the pronunciation of certain words by younger Americans. Words like button, cotton, mountain have become like 2 distinct words. And the t is soft or not used at all. Button is now buh - inn, cotton is cah - inn and mountain is mao -inn. I think it's the influence of hip hop culture as hepcat mentioned before.

I hear it in almost everyone under the age of 30 from all parts of the country. My 7 year old grand daughter , raised in Florida, calls it her belly buh - inn and my 30 year old son works in Man ha - INN. I hear it from news anchors who are supposedly professional broadcasters and should know how to speak. I was watching the local news recently and the reporter was doing a story about abused cats or something and she kept saying the ki - inns. She said it about 10 times and by the end of the story I think she even realized what an idiot she sounded like.

Jeff , do you say Manha - inn or Manhattan?

Russell...Street · 2014-02-03 06:53:21

The glottal stop! I've learned that it was only used in UK and Oz.

steve mcqueen fan · 2014-02-03 06:53:24

This deals with some of what I'm talking about. http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowAmericansPronounceButton/hxnqr/post.htm

Dudley Clarke · 2014-02-03 07:35:31

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Jeff Reed · 2014-02-03 07:58:03

Bop · 2014-02-03 11:39:24

Russell...Street · 2014-02-03 15:26:28

doghouse · 2014-02-04 14:46:22

Roy L Fuchs.

Worried Man · 2014-02-04 14:56:37

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Moose Maclennan · 2014-02-20 00:28:29

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