why is it SOME-T-IN or NO-T-IN or ANY-T-In?

Mark   Thu Nov 24, 2005 9:17 am GMT
ok so i have been observing that in most southern dialects they are more likey to pronounce some kinda T (without any air being released in between tongue and palate) in most of the words that includes T in between for e.g. some-th-in no-th-ing any-th-ing so for this TH in all these words southeren accented should have pronounced a voiceless TH but they dint and it seems that afro-americans also do someething like the same with it......
So do u all feel that it sounds good or is it normal or IS IT CORRECT?????
JJM   Thu Nov 24, 2005 1:28 pm GMT
"So do u all feel that it sounds good or is it normal or IS IT CORRECT?????"

It doesn't matter whether it sounds good or not to us, that would be a purely subjective statement based on our opinion of how English is "supposed" to sound.

It is is perfectly normal to the group of speakers who speak this way.

"CORRECT" is meaningless here! African-American dialects are by no means the only ones that do not use the "th" sound which is by no means in universal use amongst English speakers.

Many Irish English dialects tend to make a "t" or "d" sound ("dere's sometin' wrong wid dat"), some southern English English almost say "f" or "v" in certain circumstances ("sum-fin" or suvvern").

And, as you might note, even the ending "-ing" is not common to all dialects. Many of them use "-in'."