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Plebiscite, plebiscite! How about "The hostess with the mostess"?
I'm a stingy Yankee. If I spend money on a "t", I'm going to pronounce it. Half of the time, anyway.
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Poll please - is this regional?
Around here, we call him the mail man or her the mail carrier. But, that is not what you asked.
I would pronounce postman with the T.
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Old Nick is right, at least in relation to me. When I thought about it, I realised that I do pronounce it posman. Well-spotted, that man!
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I pronounce it "mailman".
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As did I. I wonder if it's common to all Liz's lands, or just our two?
In Canada, it's mailman (although technically it's probably letter carrier). However, we usually pronounce t's in words where they are ignored by others (internet, international, interesting, interact - all these still have that first "t" pronounced in Canada, and the innernet, innernational, inneresting, inneract pronunciations are viewed as US'n). So I would pronounce the '"t" if I had to say the word postman.
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Posman...usually, now that I think about it. Occasionally, post man--I think it's a Southern thing. "The post' man left a lot of letters today."
innernet, innernational, inneresting, inneract
I don't think I've ever heard any of these.
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innernet, innernational, inneresting, inneract
I don't think I've ever heard any of these.
Watch American TV news. Any channel. Any part of the country. You'll hear 'em all used within one half-hour show.
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