I’m pretty sure it’s considered a capital offense in France to pronounce every letter in any word.
ex-TROARD-ner-y.
Offin. T wilent
BTW, It occurred to me that “comfortable” is the only word I can think of in which two consonants are pronounced in reverse order. It is spelled with the R before the T, but pronounces (in casual conversation) with the T before the R. KUMF-ter-bul.
Pronouncing the /t/ in often is a classic example of spelling pronunciation.
In which, where, etc, the -h- is voiced before the -w- (in variants of English where both sounds are voiced). Hwich and hwere would be more accurate indicators of pronunciation. Granted, you can quibble about whether they are both consonants.
I use the Mercan forms: Strordnary and off’n.
Whereas here if you don’t pronounce the T you sound like a hick…
Silent T and A. It’s how I’ve always heard them pronounced.
Both are the standard pronunciations in any dictionary I’ve ever seen. My understanding is that the change is coming from people who do spelling pronunciations.
Ok, how about “internet”? It’s “innernet” for me, and sounds jarring when some voice over for provider commercials clearly enunciates it with the t.
It’s common in American English to use a nasalized alveolar flap, [ɾ̃].
I’m a web programmer and I probably pronounce it innernet but neither pronunciation sounds jarring to me. On the other hand when I have occasion to pronounce “www”, which is rarely these days, I say “wuh wuh wuh” instead of “double u double u double u”.