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Originally Posted by wdfifteen

I brought this up in a thread a few months ago. It seems to be people under 30 or 40 who do it most. It may have started as a regional thing, but it’s nation wide fad now. It doesn’t bother me, but it seems lazy and I hold people who do it in lower regard. They don’t seem like serious people to me.

Yep, accents and/or dialect variations of language can/does certainly impact our impression of people.

On the other hand there is a presenter on a podcast “Gastropod” who pronounces “T” very precisely and it is a bit disconcerting. While most of the people I know pronounce “water” with a soft “T” or almost like a “d” and as one syllable, she uses a hard “T” and makes it two syllables.

Interesting. I occasionally hear that sort of thing. It's interesting. We (the missus) watch a fair number of British shows and occasionally Oz or NZ based stuff, and hearing the differences is interesting to me.

I think Zeke actually has some formal education background in this area and has made an interesting post or two going into some specifics over the years.