Re: YAEPT (was Re: French)

I always pronounced the /t/ in "often" and figured those who didn't
were just being lazy; imagine my surprise when I found that most of
the people who cared about that sort of thing considered the /t/-less
variety correct and the /t/-ful one the mark of a pretender to class,
or whatever - a hypercorrection, though I didn't know the term yet.
Since I was at the time one of those people who cared about that sort
of thing, I switched, and continued to care long enough to lose the
habit.  I now pronounce it without the /t/, but apart from my
intellectual interest in YAEPT sort of things, I don't care whether
anyone else does or not. :)

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