How Do You Pronounce The Word "Button"?

According to my a couple of coworkers, I say “button” oddly…apparently I pronounce both “Ts,” like “but-ten.” To me, it sounds fine though…I can’t even try to say it any other way; it always comes out the same.

Am I alone?

Same here. There was an episode of Law and Order: Criminal Intent, where the detectives were able to track down a killer because he pronounced the t’s in the word “pretty” so it sounded like “priTey.” The characters on the show commented on how odd that pronunciation was. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone in this area pronounce a double t word without the glottal stop.

buh-ten.

“Buh-din”, unless it’s in reference to a cute girl, then “Butt-in”. :smiley:

Butt’n.

I use a glottal stop. A friend of mine uses a flap. He also does for the word “eaten,” and I find it positively weird.

I’m from Toronto (Ter-ON-oh, no T in that either) and that’s how I say it. I noticed a little while ago that two friends from Ottawa pronounced the Ts in Britain, and I made them say a bunch of words like this. They thought I was crazy as I dug around in my closet and pulled out a mitten and asked them what they called it. So I developed this whole theory about that being one difference in our accents. Then I asked another friend from Ottawa a little while later, and she put a glottal stop in there too. So it’s certainly not rare, that’s all I can say.

(It’s time to dig out the mitten again and conduct a more extensive survey. I have friends from BC, Alberta, and Saskatchewan here, and I bet I’ll confirm that they all say mit’n.)

Yes, I think you are alone. I have never heard anyone pronounce both Ts; most people don’t even pronounce one.

Thank you, that is the best spelling of my pronunciation as well - and I might add, the pronunciation of almost everybody I know except for that teacher and a few of my students. BTW, I am originally from Illinois if that makes any difference in this story. It at least appears I am not alone in speaking the word that way.

I seriously had never heard anybody say the word button with silent “T’s” until I moved here. It just sounds so strange to hear the word without the “T’s”.

but’n

I’m Amish, so I don’t.

In the Chicago area, pronouncing the Ts clearly and precisely is just not done. We do the buh-n pronunciation.

Me, too. Lifelong Ohioan here.

Philadelphian here, and “Trenton” gets a glottal stop, as does button, sittin’, etc. Fightin’ comes out more like “figh-din.”