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[–] EdanGrey@sh.itjust.works 53 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Is this a pronunciation thing? Those words are not homophones where I am

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 33 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Most everyone I know would pronounce them the same. The Pacific northwest hates pronouncing the letter 't', either turning it into a 'd' sound, slurring past it, or at the end of words dropping it entirely

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How to sound American tutorial

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Nah, we pronunce them very differently here in the midwest. They sound as different as matter and madder.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 3 points 5 months ago

Interesting... I'm from NJ and there's no audible difference between ladder and latter here, nor between madder and matter. However, my parents are both from different parts of NJ than where I was raised, and they do pronounce them differently!

[–] droans@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I'm also in the Midwest (Indiana) and have the opposite experience.

They might not be perfect homophones but you're rarely using a full hard T sound. Usually something between a d and t sound.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm from the PNW. I do pronounce the T sound in latter. I also put more emphasis on the first syllable than I do when pronouncing ladder.

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

Same in the northeast

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago

I'm from NJ and there's no audible difference between ladder and latter here. Both have a D sound.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

Once had some twat laugh at me for the way I pronounced "waddur boddle"