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[Opinions] A HUGE pet peeve of mine...
is calling American pronunciation lazy. It is not "lazy", damn it! It's the American accent, and there is NOTHING inherently wrong with it. Americans don't pronounce T in the middle of a word as D because they're too "lazy" to do otherwise. They do it because that's what they've grown up hearing so, hey, that's what they do. You know what? I bet it's very hard for the British to pronounce the T as a D sound. It's probably easier for them to say it as a T. Does this mean they're "lazy"? No, it means they say it that way because that's what they grew up hearing!About the Etta thing, I think that if you're going to expect the Americans with whom you live to speak like the British, you should give it up.
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