Reply #21: Linguistic variation ranges widely for this consonant placement [View All]

[LiberteToujours]

"t" and "d" placed between two vowels is pronounced quite differently by accent. In "Posh" British it is pronounced how it is spelled. It is Cockney British where you see it replaced by the glottal stop of which your post is an example. In most Canadian and American accents, the sound is replaced by why is called an "alveolar flap" in linguistics terms. Basically it means that your tongue just kind of flaps from one vowel to the next. Think of the word "butter". It is similar to the single r sound in Spanish.