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Consider following words,

  • Its
  • At
  • That
  • What

I often hear them as,

  • I/?/s
  • Aa
  • Tha/?/
  • Wha/?/

I'm interested to hear in which regional accents above pronunciations are used.

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    Well gosh...that would depend on where the speaker is from.
    – Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_
    Commented Dec 11, 2020 at 18:16
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    @Cascabel They were white just as I am, but I didn't ask the location.
    – jeffbRTC
    Commented Dec 11, 2020 at 18:22
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    I think you are missing the point. We deal with English from all over the world including America, England, Australia, India, etc. We don't ask race; however, we do entertain questions about African-American dialect. Also, we support questions about regional dialects...
    – Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_
    Commented Dec 11, 2020 at 18:25
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    @Cascabel Well, Looking at your location, it's acceptable that you can't answer it specifically.
    – jeffbRTC
    Commented Dec 11, 2020 at 19:58
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    These words are never pronounced alone. They always occur in constructions and contractions with other words, and they're never stressed. Naturally things will go missing, mostly consonants. The idea that there is really a /t/ that's usually pronounced is left over from grade school. Talk comes first, and writing limps a long way after.
    – John Lawler
    Commented Dec 11, 2020 at 20:04

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Your ears heard them right. Many people speak those words that way. As pointed by @Cascabel in one of the comments, it's a matter of accent. For example, Americans often omit their T's but Indians like to keep them.

Dropping T's in words like "kitten," "Vermont" and "important" is a normal speech pattern, and there's even a name for it: T-glottalization!

Reference: www.quickanddirtytips.com

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  • I too omit /t/ on certain words, but I'm not sure about the words I listed above. I'm looking for a quick verification.
    – jeffbRTC
    Commented Dec 11, 2020 at 18:47
  • Cockney too word final but more like a glottal stop rather than the American unreleased stop.
    – Mitch
    Commented Dec 11, 2020 at 18:51
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    @jeffbRTC What is it exactly you want verified? That other people do it at all? Or something else like which region do people come from that do it?
    – Mitch
    Commented Dec 11, 2020 at 18:52
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    @Cascabel I am sure it's a duplicate. You can report it as one if you want to because the OP hasn't shown research efforts anyway. There are many wonderful articles on the internet too. I don't think I can capture all their essence in one answer plus I am not interested in pinpointing the latitude and longitudes of those regions.
    – PoopsAndGiggles
    Commented Dec 11, 2020 at 19:31
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    @PoopsAndGiggles The OP's examples are all word-final, but all your examples are word-medial (in the middle). While this may be a seemingly ignorable nuance, the two phenomena are distinct. Different things happen to those two in different regions/accents/registers. For some it's a glottal stop, for some it's a dental flap, for some it's dropped altogether, for some it's there like it has been for awhile.
    – Mitch
    Commented Dec 11, 2020 at 23:00

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