The first “N” is silent as in Chumley;)
Oh, this thread brings me back. I grew up on Connecticut St., and yeah. It was confusing when I was learning to read and write. Not to mention this was in San Francisco. Oi, learning to spell my address correctly was unfairly difficult. (It took me awhile to figure out how to arrange the cs and ss.)
… Wow. This thread is literally the first time I’ve ever noticed the second C in that name. I was an avid Monopoly player as a kid, I know people from CT…yet, until this thread… Funky.
Really? For you, “Connecticut” rhymes with “put”? I know that’s what you’re saying, and I know you are well tuned-in to phonetics, but it’s hard to imagine it being pronounced like that.
Is it possible that Dr. Drake meant “putt”, as in the verb having to do with golf? (Which rhymes with “mutt” or “cut”.) The way I say it, it does rhyme with the last syllable in Connecticut. I agree that “put” as in “I put the book on the shelf” does not rhyme with that syllable.
Co net i kit, right?
How abut Fucking Australia?
Phuk-ing or Foo-king?
Anybody up for a game of kuh-NET four?
/Homer/It’s pronounced “Ver-mont”, Lisa./Homer/
No, I meant “put.” Thinking about it (and saying Connecticut, Connecticut, Connecticut out loud), it’s more like the oo in book, but very short. It’s definitely not -it.
I think you mean “twenny,” which, as you say, is common enough for “twenty.”
I don’t think I’ve ever heard “Conencticut” without the final “t”, or with a very faint one, but I could almost see it pronounced with a terminating glottal stop. I wonder if some American dialects do this.
Actually, that’s in Austria. I believe the “u” in this case is pronounced more like the “ou” in "would and the “g” like a “k.”
But be careful how you pronounce Phuket in Thailand!
[mild hijack]My favorite Anglo-butchered place name is that of a small town in Nevada near Reno, called Verdi. The town was named for the composer Giuseppe Verdi, but it’s pronounced “Vur-dye.”
Aglo-butchered place names abound in the U.S.[/hijack]
Anyway, as for that state with the abbreviation “CT,” I’ve never heard the second “c” pronounced, except as a joke.
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Another silent “N” 
And isn’t Lima, Ohio pronounced like in “lima beans” and not like the capital of Peru? Because they grow them in the area? I recall hearing of some movie where they couldn’t be arsed to research that, and a character said she came from “Leema, Ohio.”
For me, it’s more like TWUH-nee. Followed by THIRdy, FORdy, FIFty, SIXty, SEvendy, etc.
The final “t” is generally not voiced, as it is at the beginning of a word.
My MIL lived in CT from age 20-40. She’s now 80+. My wife & her sister were born & grew up in CT.
MIL always used to pronounce CT the usual way, but somehow about 30 years ago after moving out West to escape the winters she decided to pronounce it CONNECT - i -Kut where the c in the middle is definitely fully pronounced and the final kut is a schwa, but more of a u-sounding schwa than an i-sounding schwa.
She’s otherwise normal and of sound mind, but somehow at age ~50 she decided it sounded *so *much more sophisticated to include that middle c. Showing off to the rubes in wherever she’s just moved to has always been important to her. Even if called on it she insists the voiced middle C is how the real CT natives pronounce it.
FTR, she’s the only person I’ve ever heard pronounce it that way. Her daughters (unsurprisingly) pronounce it like very other American & just shake their heads at Mom’s silly ways.
Wouldn’t a voiced “t” be a “d” sound? Or am I misunderstanding your post? I will sometimes voice "t"s in the middle of a word like “metal” and “petal” (so they may sound like “medal” and “pedal”), but I’ve never heard anyone voice a “t” at the beginning of a word.
You have a different vowel in “put” and “book”?
Just wanted to add – maybe you’re thinking of the difference between an aspirated “t” (which often occurs at initial positions) and an unreleased “t” (which occurs at the end of words, among other places)? (edit: I should also add that the voiced “t” I describe above might be a flap “t”, although in my accent it seems indistinguishable from a “d.”)