# "Push The Buh-en..... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 31, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330 "2012-01-31T19:24:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330/1 "2012-01-31T19:24:37Z")
… and then sit down on your butt". What? Is there something wrong up in your sinuses that you can’t pronounce the word “button” with both syllables together, kid? What do you guys think? I mean, you _do_ have to go up in there if you pronounce it “butt’n”, but not if you say “but_ten_” (phonetics mine). Is there something medically wrong, that it comes out the way I have it written in the title line? Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330/2 "2012-01-31T19:27:43Z")
But it’s the hardest buh-en to buh-en… It’s a hipster thing. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330/3 "2012-01-31T19:38:48Z")
It’s a [Glottal Stop.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottal_stop) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330/4 "2012-01-31T19:39:55Z")
I think it’s just the way some people talk. Like someone I knew from New Bri’ain. She had a ki’en, di’un she? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330/5 "2012-01-31T19:40:21Z")
I blame Pauly Shore. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330/6 "2012-01-31T19:43:01Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I think it’s just the way some people talk. Like someone I knew from New Bri’ain. She had a ki’en, di’un she? I always said I wanted to go to that part of Britain, where they talk like that, so then I could say that I didn’t understand English. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330/7 "2012-01-31T19:44:04Z")
I would love to throw an answer out there, but I have no idea what you’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330/8 "2012-01-31T19:48:28Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > I always said I wanted to go to that part of Britain, where they talk like that, so then I could say that I didn’t understand English. Sure, but this was an American. Now I’m wondering if people who talk like that have parents and sibling who also talk like that. Is it a learned behavior or a speech impediment? I never really thought about it before. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330/9 "2012-01-31T19:51:24Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > I would love to throw an answer out there, but I have no idea what you’re talking about. Imagine a cockney person saying “little.” It sounds like “lih”, then a tiny bit of silence, then “ull.” If you do it right, you can actually feel your throat close up. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330/10 "2012-01-31T19:54:23Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Sure, but this was an American. > > Now I’m wondering if people who talk like that have parents and sibling who also talk like that. Is it a learned behavior or a speech impediment? I never really thought about it before. Mostly, I’d say it’s an accent. In Rhode Island, where I grew up, people do i’ a lo’. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330/11 "2012-01-31T19:54:41Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > I would love to throw an answer out there, but I have no idea what you’re talking about. Chris Rock tends to employ it when he pronounces [Bill] “Clinton”-- it sounds like “Clih’in.” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QKi1ePbpi4c/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGHIgVCg_MA8=&rs=AOn4CLABZhUBoiyF4iDaOWxGXNVvIg48Lw "Chris Rock - The Monica Lewinsky Scandal") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKi1ePbpi4c) You can particularly hear it the second time he says “Clinton,” about 8 seconds in. (Warning, NSFW language.) ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330/12 "2012-01-31T19:58:33Z")
I pronounce button the same way I pronounce mutton, kitten, mitten, bitten, etc. like the example in the OP. Apparently wrongly. 😛 Maybe it’s a regional thing. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330/13 "2012-01-31T20:00:01Z")
I think it must be regional. It’s pretty universal among a certain group of Brits. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330/14 "2012-01-31T20:21:21Z")
There are several people here in Las Vegas who do this, and it also drives me crazy. It is like they are choking on a sandwich or something whenever they say a word with two “t’s” in the middle of the word. Then again, I wouldn’t last long in Boston because I would constantly be screaming, “There is an ‘R’ in the words car, bar and far!!” Whenever I hear someone from that area talking about some birthday “potty” they went to, I always hope they really were in the potty. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330/15 "2012-01-31T20:25:45Z")
I’ve also heard “buddin.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330/16 "2012-01-31T20:36:10Z")
That was a region accent around here. People would say “buh’en” or “kih’en.” ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330/17 "2012-01-31T20:48:11Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Imagine a cockney person saying “little.” It sounds like “lih”, then a tiny bit of silence, then “ull.” If you do it right, you can actually feel your throat close up. > [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Chris Rock tends to employ it when he pronounces [Bill] “Clinton”-- it sounds like “Clih’in.” > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKi1ePbpi4c](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKi1ePbpi4c) > > You can particularly hear it the second time he says “Clinton,” about 8 seconds in. (Warning, NSFW language.) Right, but I thought the OP was talking about something specific, which wasn’t helped by **Alice the Goon** saying ‘It’s a hipster thing’. I guess I was wrong in my thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330/18 "2012-01-31T20:49:25Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I think it must be regional. It’s pretty universal among a certain group of Brits. It’s pretty blatant on the Ricky Gervais podcast, for example. But I’ve also heard it from Americans, especially but not only African-Americans. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330/19 "2012-01-31T21:08:49Z")
Heh. We had an actor in our show once, a Mexican-American guy, born here but with a definite East LA accent. One of his lines had the keyword of “Latin”, and he never could pronounce it as anything but “La’in”. We teased him mercilessly, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330/20 "2012-01-31T21:13:04Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > Right, but I thought the OP was talking about something specific, which wasn’t helped by **Alice the Goon** saying ‘It’s a hipster thing’. I guess I was wrong in my thinking. When it’s not part of an English accent, or a regional accent here in the states, and it’s just people that say it because they like the way it sounds, and a lot of people do, then I think it’s a hipster thing. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/push-the-buh-en/611330.md?page=2)