New York Dialect: Medial T

Video Transcript

"Okay, now we're ready to get to some finishing touches for your New York dialect. Medial "T", which means when a "T" comes in the middle of a word like, "bottle", "boddle" or "bedder", "better", it definitely sounds as a "D". So when the "T"; (write this down, get your paper, write this down, because you might need to remember, reflect back on this rule)When "T" comes between two vowels, or when it falls after a vowel, and before an "L" or an "R", we tend to make it, we tend to give that "T" a "D" sound, alright, that's what we do. They make the word ultra "D". So we tend to say, "better", and you hear a slight bit of a "D". New Yorker's hit that "D" and make it hard, "Bedda", "I'm doing so much "Bedda"", it's a very, very clear "D", we're ours is a very subtle "D". So in all of your double "T" combinations, follow the rule. I don't think we need to have a practice session on this because it's pretty obvious. With those "T's" make them "hada" "D's". It will be "beda"."