Episode 159: Elizabethan Voices
The History of English Podcast
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The History of the T in English
The history of often is a little bit complicated. It began with the Old English word oft, which later acquired the E-N suffix. By the Elizabethan period, some people pronounced the T, and some people didn't. In contemporary English, that T sound has continued to be unstable in the middle of words.
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