All my life I have been pronouncing the word "Often" with a silent "T". Now I seem to be the only one that pronounces it this way. Most people seem to pronounce it "Off Ten". Did some change come down and I didnt get notified of it? Has anyone else discovered this? Could it be that I have been saying this word wrong for over 40 years?

I usually say off ten but I have no idea if this is correct.

At least I don't say "supposibly" or "I am getting so fustrated," which I hear very off in.

:D

All my life I have been pronouncing the word "Often" with a silent "T". Now I seem to be the only one that pronounces it this way. Most people seem to pronounce it "Off Ten". Did some change come down and I didnt get notified of it? Has anyone else discovered this? Could it be that I have been saying this word wrong for over 40 years?
Oh the things that run through our mind when we're stuck on the toilet without a new paper.....
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The pronounciation sounds country to me without the T, like "how offen yall pick the eggs from the chicken coop?"
I actually don't think I have ever heard anyone say it that way in real life :confused:
I usually say off ten but I have no idea if this is correct.

At least I don't say "supposibly" or "I am getting so fustrated," which I hear very off in.

:D
I cannot STAND when people pronounce it "supposibly", it sounds so "My momma di'nt not tell me to reed and rite proper, now supposibly I sound like wite trash".
I don't know about you guys, but when I was like 4 my mom taught me that the word "bed" looks like a bed when you get your B's and D's the right way..... ever since then I have been able to tell the difference between a B and a D and pronounce tough words like "supposedly" properly.

I say it without the t. I'll have to listen to how the people around me are saying it. The Webster's New World Dictionary I have says that both pronunciations are correct. Here's a website that can make you self-conscious about everything you say! (http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html)

I say it without that "T" but read it with the T. but im from alabama and we have our own vocabulary!