i say ofTen and correct anyone who says offen
Based on what, all the dictionary cites that state that [offen] is not only correct, but indeed generally preferable?
There’s nothing wrong with [of ten] per se, but there is certainly nothing wrong with [offen].
43 - Midwesterner, never pronounced the T.
38, born/raised/live in Northern California. I pronounce the T. I think I’m the only one I know who does, though it’s possible I just don’t pay enough attention.
52, northeast U.S., everyone I know says “offen”
mid 30s, west coast US:
I don’t pronounce a clear “t” but there is a kind of stop in the middle of “often” that isn’t in the middle of “soften.”
I also know I pronounce the “L” in “almond” after having been mocked for my bizarre Northern Californian pronunciation of that word after my family moved away from northern California.
41, Upper Midwest transplant to the Northeast. “Offen.”
I often heard “off-ten” growing up in Iowa, but I heard “offen” just as often, if not more often.
This quote really struck me. I pronounce the “d” in handsome and handkerchief, the “p” in in consumption and raspberry, and the “t” in chestnut. Huh.
I can buy three of these, cause so do I, but you really say “rasp berry” and not “razz berry” and “hand kerchief” instead of “hankerchief”?
Yes, yes I do. No one has even looked at me like I’m insane, or even commented on it for that matter. To be clear, though, it’s not like when I’m enunciating I say it with a significant pause between “rasp” and “berry” or between 'hand" and “kerchief”.
So you pronounce both the “p” and the “b” in “raspberry”? I simply cannot emulate that without the two sounds merging into one, or without too much dead air jamming itself in between them.
We were taught “offen” here in India . But , I have seeen here that language institutes teach pronunciation often with “t” .
I used to listen to BBC world service radio and obesrved that they offen used " often".
Female, 50, grew up in mid-Michigan, live in central Ohio. Offen, soffen, meer.
28, Midwest American, often, soffen, meer. I also say the TH in clothes, which in my mouth, is not said the same as close.
Of-ten, soffen, rasp-berry bushes, razz-berry candy, hanker-chiff, uh-cross, high-t, wid-th, caff, all-mund, chest-nut, comfterble, Feb-you-wary, gram-mother, gran-father, hoo, wut, and where. Little bitty rivers are pronounced cricks.
43, western US, but my neighbors and family say I’ve always talked funny. 
I say “razzberry” but tend to pronounce the D in “handkerchief.” I always pronounce the D in “grandmother” and “grandfather.”
How about the letter W? How do you pronounce that? I say “dubya,” but I’ve heard people say “double U.”
50, born in Boston, English mother: offen. I think pronouncing the “t” is a sign of pretentiousness that backfires.
I am English and I pronounce the ‘t’, except it is more like a ‘d’, which is strange because pronuncing a t as a d is more an American thing - I have learned to ask for a glass of war-duh or the server cannot understand me.
Sitting here and saying “raspberry”–“raspberry” over and over. I’ve got to be honest–what I say is actually “rasz perry.”
At least there’s a ‘t’ in often; there isn’t one in ‘across’ nor an ‘h’ in ‘height’. At least, not at the end. You know what I mean.
40, grew up in Eastern Pennsylvania, say “offen”.
Wife is 40, grew up in Northern New Jersey, says “often”.