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[SeumasA]

I now live in Utah, and here there is a tendency to drop the letter t drives me crazy. They typically say "mountain" as "mou-an," my maiden name of Barton became "Bar-un." They also pronounce "our" the same way as "are."

I grew up in northern California and in Washington. I also now live in Utah. I don't think it's that they drop the 't'; it's that the syllables are accented differently. For instance, in my west coast accent I say the word mountain as moun-TAIN. Here it's MOUNT-un. The town Layton is LAYT-un, where I would say Lay-TON.