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Q: Do you pronounce the T in often ?
thought I would start the year off with a bang
I can here your teeth grinding from here
let the games begin
10 years 32 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment - China
Good questions are rarity these days.
Yes, always when I'm online here: 'e-China-ti-tti-es' 
try slowly....'e-Ch.....'
I might have a 'gift': dyslexia 
philbravery:
yes you a right good questions are a rare these days and this one is no exception to the rule . im board so thought i would throw a fire cracker into the esl arena
icnif77:
'This Q is an ex-pec-tion' somebody very famous once said
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'If you are bored, you might want to board the Cruise liner by walking on your arms' another famous 'gram-mer-natzi' spouted
lolicnif77:
Bekaa Valley .....
Rockets always happened, when Arafats try to 'teach' Yiddish.....to Native Israelis.
Nope. It's a secondary pronounciation, according to mostdictionaries...
Yes (but unlike the Chinese, I do not pronounce the 'r' in usually).
mArtiAn:
Or lovely. "Waiter, this chicken is rubbery." "Oh, fang you! All our chigin is rubbery!"
It doesn't matter, I don't think. But not many people do. Now I think of it I think my grandmother used to.
How about H?
The word 'often' was pronounced with a t-sound until the 17th century, when a pronunciation without the (t) came to predominate in the speech of the educated, in both North America and Great Britain, and the earlier pronunciation fell into disfavor. Common use of a spelling pronunciation has since restored the (t)
for many speakers, and today (ô′fən)
and (ôf′tən)
[or (of′ən)
and (of′tən)
exist side by side. Although it is still sometimes criticized, often with a (t)
is now so widely heard from educated speakers that it has become fully standard once again
My 8th grade English teacher scolded me about pronouncing the "t". Since I was a curious lad, I went over and grabbed the dictionary to see what it said about it. At the time (early 80's) it mentioned both are correct to use. I showed her, but since she was an arrogant know it all, told me the dictionary was wrong...that no "t" is heard. 
