Who pronounces button "bu'on"?

[EstimatedProphet]

Apparently this is the Latest Cool Thing, dropping consonants in the middle of a word.
Why?

[RevolutionaryActs]

1. Uh......... uh.............. wow.

:wow:

[Lex]

2. The british?

Just a guess.

[CO Liberal]

3. Because Some People Are Mo'ons and I'iots

:-)

[KitchenWitch]

12. Wouldn't that be Mo'ans?

:evilgrin:

[CO Liberal]

20. Only When Referring to This Guy

[alwynsw]

16. Agreed.

[curlyred]

4. there's really no "o"

more of a "bu...nnnnn" kind of thing.

Also applies to "mi...nnnn".

"ki....nnnn".

[Misunderestimator]

6. And put-nnnn, and bring-nnn, and birth-nnn

:)

[emulatorloo]

5. People I know do this, and it makes me crazy.

They sound like three-year-olds who never grew up.

[EstimatedProphet]

24. That's exactly it

Sorry to be the language police, but this sounds juvenile.

[emulatorloo]

30. The Tiny Obnoxious Olsen twins, when they were on Full House

had a similar speech impediment thingy going on.

[Cocoa]

7. Cockneys

people trying to sound like the Clash.

[JimmyJazz]

10. What? Who in the Clash was cockney?

[miss_kitty]

13. people often mistake a souf london accent for

Cockney. but there's a lot more swearin' in souf london.

On Edit :hi:

[JimmyJazz]

18. Hi sweetums. Thanks for coming to my rescue!

I just spent the past ten minutes trying to confirm that Brixton and the East End were two separate areas. And we won't even go into Joe's background! :D

:hi: How ya been?

[miss_kitty]

22. sick :(

other than that, Okay!

Americans as a group have a hard time with accents. I cringe whenever an Aussie has to tell someone who just asked what part of England are they from answers 'Canberra' 'Brisbane' or whatever. Or a Kiwi has to say-'I'm not Australian.' I used to be really good at some English accents-I can tell Liverpool from Manchester and The Souf from the Eastend-but that's just me. I find most people class all non-posh English accents as Cockney, because it's the best known name

[skygazer]

31. Well, to be fair

It's hardly "local" to most of us. Can most Brits tell a Georgian accent from a Virginian? Or a Bronx from a Brooklyn?

[miss_kitty]

34. maybe not

but I wager a lot of them could tell the difference between Bronx and Georgian accents-and Canadian and American. Which is like the difference between say, Liverpool or Mancunian and any number of London accents, and between Australia and New Zealand. To most Americans, if it's not RP or posh, it's Cockney!

but we isolate ourselves from non-Amurican accents. Remember 'Mad Max?' Mel Gibson's voice was dubbed in that, because his accent was too Aussie. Why does the US buy British TV series to make pale imitations of the originals? A lot of it has to do with accent, I'm sure.

[miss_kitty]

23. ps

Brixton is an 'SW' postal code, Eastend is 'EC' or 'E'. world of difference

[cyberpj]

8. Latest cool thing? Crap! To me it's "Projects-talk".

"Oh no he di'nt!"

or

"I was gonna go but I coul'nt get away from my pimp-Daddy"

etc...

and another step in the murder of proper English.

[SheilaT]

9. That pronunciation,

if I'm reading your phonetic transcription correctly, is typical of Cockney speech, and that particular sound in the middle of the word is called a glottal stop.

I suppose it's been picked up from somewhere, although I haven't personally noticed an increase in that pronunciation, but I probably hang out with the wrong people.

[Demit]

11. I know there's a linguistic word for that...elision?

That's probably not it, but it's an annoying thing that kids around me did when I was growing up. They also said "pixture" and "chiminey" and it was NOT a sign of good speech. Kinda low-class, in fact.

What Sheila said! Glottal stop. "Cah-in" for cotton, too, I remember.

[miss_kitty]

19. elision is the omission of something

1. Omission of a final or initial sound in pronunciation.
2. Omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable, as in scanning a verse.
2. The act or an instance of omitting something.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=elision&r=2

don't forget the ever-present 'mis chee vee ous' for 'mischievous' It's just 'mis chiv us'

[politicat]

36. I have been corrected for pronouncing that last correctly.

Also, for omitting the central /r/ in wash.

It's lovely coming from a long line of under-educated, content in their ignorance and convinced of their superiority for it, idiots.

Some, is regional; the area of the midwest my family comes from is very much in a direct descent from Northumbrian miners, Irish Famine refugees, and Scottish lowland farmers. What a mish-mash of mush-mouth accent they created! Unfortunately, they preserved the worst parts of their dialectical disaster and discarded the best. (Hm. I'm on an alliterative kick today.)

But most, I fear, is that self-congratulatory attitude that comes from not being one of them "intelleckshuls." Even the educated in my family - save me - were educated in practical things, like engineering or agronomy.

Shall I end this bit of rant?

[wendy__]

27. Glottal Stop

Here in RI, the old timers still do it. We're rapidly losing our distinct accent, however. I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing.

[alwynsw]

14. Reminds me of the inspiration for a Heywood Banks tune.

HE claims he overheard several teenage girls talking about going to a movie or some such. when asked if Annie was going, her friend piped up with ,"Me 'n Annie gonna ax her momma."

Hence the Heywood axe murdering teen song "Mean Annie Gonna Axe her Momma".

[rockedthevoteinMA]

15. And meh'n (mitten) n/t

[Worst Username Ever]

17. Buh'en

Bu'on makes me thing of boo-on.

[EstimatedProphet]

25. Sorry about the spelling

It's hard to figure out how to spell a word that's deliberately mispronounced.

[LiberteToujours]

21. Linguistic variation ranges widely for this consonant placement

"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.

[EstimatedProphet]

26. I think I need to be more specific, because this isn't Cockney.

As an example, I had training with a girl in her early 20's who was from Indiana, and that's how she would talk about assigning webpage "buh'ens". Also I've run into a few early 20's that the Prophetess teaches, and they're all talking this way..."buh'ens", "kih'ens", etc. Earlier today the Nelly song came on the radio: "It's geh'in' ho' in here"...
I may be a curmudgeon, but hearing people talk like this drives me up a wall.

[CJCRANE]

32. In UK used to be called "mockney...

i.e. some-one speaking with a sort of cockney accent even if they're not from that area.

[Ellen Forradalom]

28. I do

And I will have all of you know that I am not an idiot. Frankly, I'm a little hurt.

I think it may be part of the Chicago accent, though I've never analyzed it.

[EstimatedProphet]

29. No offense meant, because the Chicago accent isn't what I mean

I know what you mean about Chicago accents, and that's not what I'm talking about. Post #8 is what I'm talking about.

[Ellen Forradalom]

33. Okay

I felt a little stung by comments earlier. I'm a lifelong Chicagoan, and I don't live so far from projects myself. Perhaps a bit of that speech has rubbed off on me, despite my uber-WASP background (my father had a Boston accent, one uncle has a mid-Atlantic British/American hybrid accent and my other uncles spoke with English accents, being British subjects.)

People are parrots and will pick up sounds that surround them, whether in the neighborhood or from TV. It's a natural process of linguistic change and doesn't mean they are stupid.

[kittenpants]

35. I guess I do this. I'm so sorry, but I just now noticed.