Today's episode is brought to you by the letter T....but all the letter Ts on the street have mysteriously vanished! Can Big Bird, Telly, Gabi and Tarah find...

Telly gets an idea to ask a letter T about the mysterious disappearance of the letter. Because there are no Ts around, they draw one, but it floats away without giving a response. They then hypothesize that if they build a T, they can hold onto it before it splits.

Taken from 123 Sesame Street Episode 3907: The Missing T's. Recorded on Nick Jr. on August 27, 2010.

2019年4月24日 · Two of our listeners wrote in recently to ask about a speech pattern they’d noticed: the habit of people dropping the T-sound in words like “Putin” or “mitten.” They wondered if this was a regional dialect, a generational one, or something else. Here’s what we discovered. The phenomenon itself is known as “T-glottalization.”

2018年2月15日 · In this blog post we are going to look at when the T sound is not pronounced in spoken English. This ‘elision’ happens most often with words that end in – t. The t at the end of a word is often not pronounced when the next word begins with a consonant.

In this English pronunciation lesson you'll learn about the Vanishing T- where the T sound disappears completely. I promise, knowing this tip will make things much easier!

"Come Back, Letter T" is a Sesame Street song from Episode 3907. With the T's disappearing all over Sesame Street, the gang sing about what life would be like without the letter T.

2019年7月8日 · We count nine different allophones of the letter T. Odds are good you'll recognize them all (and some of them may annoy you). A few episodes ago, I talked about why the T sound sometimes seems to be missing from words like “kitten” or “button.” The answer was that in those words, many speakers use a sound known as a glottal stop.

2009年11月3日 · Yes, the case of the Missing "T" is under investigation. Linguist David Eddington started recording people to investigate the way people speak their "T"s at the end of words, not in the middle....