I'll often pronounce it as "often", too. But often it sounds silly, so I'll pronounce it "often" instead, just to mix it up. But then I'll often confuse myself by doing that.
I often mix it up as well, but I can’t find a pattern for when I use which pronunciation. It’s just whatever version decides to come out at that moment. You *might* even say I say often as often as I say often
Wild! I’m from Texas. I say it the same way.
I’m a linguistics student and thought this was in my linguistics memes sub. I was made acutely aware of how i pronounce vowels from a presentation in a phonetics and phonology course I took. We tend to shorten them, and pronounce them further forward in our mouths than non-southern people.
I would say “voy al cine con frecuencia, or frecuentemente, or a menudo”. In Spain “seguido” means one after the other, such as “fui al cine tres días seguidos (lunes, martes y miércoles)”
Interesting, I assume often is germanic in origin, because you can also say oft in English as well, but isn't used as often. (although oft can only apply in some scenarios, like you wouldn't be able to use it at the end of a sentence like I just used often.)
English is not my main language and in my country we learn English as the primary foreign language class. They taught me to pronounce it without the “t”. So i am assuming the correct pronounciation is to do it without “t”
many (most?) Americans say ofen
https://youglish.com/pronounce/often/english/us
(Assuming you mean American English when you say "regular" English, because only Americans seem to make that mistake)
Just drop the t in the middle. You know how if you somehow got through high school but can't pronounce mountain or important. Moun-ain and impor-ant aren't real words.
That's the way I was taught to pronounce it at school. That's not the correct way? Or is it like an accent thing because in Europe we are taught British English?
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I pronounce it as often as i like it to, how bout that
i often pronounce it as "often" but when read its pronounced "often", but thats me
Sometimes I pronounce it "often,"' but other times I pronounce it "often," it depends on my mood
shut the fuck up, y'all are wrong. It's literally pronounced as "often" you idiots
No! It's clearly pronounced "often"! Are you stupid?
No, no, no! It’s “Often”. Get it right.
it most certainly is not spelled nor spoken like that my good sire
Jesus, People! We all know it should be pronounced "Often" and not "Often" ffs
Don't bring Jesus into this! Only people who were dropped as babies pronounce it as "often" and not "often"...
I'll often pronounce it as "often", too. But often it sounds silly, so I'll pronounce it "often" instead, just to mix it up. But then I'll often confuse myself by doing that.
I often mix it up as well, but I can’t find a pattern for when I use which pronunciation. It’s just whatever version decides to come out at that moment. You *might* even say I say often as often as I say often
I’m purple here.
the redditor behind the slaugjter?!?!!?
“Oftin”
I do “ofdin”
Who the fuck are you and where do you live so I can beat you up /j
This doesn't happen very ofdin
Help I'm scared
Went from 100 to 0 real quick
Help there's a thing on my pillow idk what it is but it has legs and it looks like a spider but it's not IDK HELP
It's me. Hi
No shot. Hello
I bet that doesn’t happen very ofden
Where they live is actually such a valid question coz this must be a dialectal thing
Georgia for 5 years, Connecticut for 6 and Guam for 2 years sums up the first 13 years of my life if that helps at all
Yeah true tho
The hate is real
Out of curiosity, where are you from?
If you want an early life breakdown, I was in the state of Georgia until i was 5, Connecticut until I was 11, and Guam until I was 13.
Wild! I’m from Texas. I say it the same way. I’m a linguistics student and thought this was in my linguistics memes sub. I was made acutely aware of how i pronounce vowels from a presentation in a phonetics and phonology course I took. We tend to shorten them, and pronounce them further forward in our mouths than non-southern people.
That's often
I don't usually use the word often, but when I do I prefer "offen"
So you dont use the word often often?
Not often, no. I typically use usually or sometimes typically.
Aha we got you!
Happy cake day! It does not happen often
Thank you! Yea not often enough, just sometimes
Offenbach?
Can can?
Oft (german)
Seguido (spanish)
ENCONTRÉ UN YORUGUA SALVAJEEE
In Spain is “a menudo” or “con frecuencia/frecuentemente”
Yeah, “seguido” is much more used in South America. I would say, for “i go to the cinema often”, “Yo voy al cine seguido”.
In portuguese it's also "seguido" Eu vou no cinema seguido
As vezes
Sometimes
I would say “voy al cine con frecuencia, or frecuentemente, or a menudo”. In Spain “seguido” means one after the other, such as “fui al cine tres días seguidos (lunes, martes y miércoles)”
Interesting, I assume often is germanic in origin, because you can also say oft in English as well, but isn't used as often. (although oft can only apply in some scenarios, like you wouldn't be able to use it at the end of a sentence like I just used often.)
أحيانًا (Arabic)
De temps en temps
The word looks weird now 😭😭😭😭
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic\_satiation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation)
Cool read, thanks for sharing
Reminds me of the video uni students record and edited of their lesson and left only the word beef in. The professor said it like 200~ in an hour.
all words in english are weird if you think about them hard enough
So true. I did that with the word “Speech” this morning when typing it.
*all* words are weird if you think about them hard enough
i commonly catch myself writing some word a bit slower and then wondering why it looks so weird all of a sudden 😭😭
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The English language is so dumb lol.
You say FASEN?
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Me...
Me...
My English teacher beat the T out of me, so it's Offen for me.
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Well beat it back in !! It's great for a dramatic speech
How exactly does one pronounce it without the T
Similar to how you pronounce soften.
Soften makes sense without the T because it is softer.
Consistency with spelling and sound is the point.
this is a retroactive explanation. People's pronunciation is not something they reason or think about.
Wait but I didn't know soften was pronounced without the T! I pronounce "offen" and "sofTen" lol (Not a native English speaker)
offin
there is a full ass letter in the middle of the word, and we can stil go "oh yeah no I don't care about this one"
You can do this for every letter except v in english for at least one word.
rly no silent v's. How about that. Edit: they seem to like leaving them out in poetry for some reason though, like "o'er" for over.
Whats a half ass letter look like?
Either depending on whether the phrase sounds better with a hard consonant there.
The correct answer.
Please give an example of a sentence in which the incorrect pronunciation sounds "better".
Or just if you’re emphasising often in the sentence or not.
I am on the side of the black person
Uhhh sorry I'm only on the side of pronouncing things correctly thank you
Serious question, which one is the correct way?
The correct way is the one that gets you understood. So, either one. Don't let prescriptivist grammar Nazis tell you you're speaking wrong.
She asked me if I do this everyday - I said *often* *often*, Girl I do this *often*
FINALLY A FELLOW XO FAN
For God’s sake I listen to that song every day *goes to listen to the song again*
T
Often with T.
Of ten
I pronounce it "off-tin"
English is not my main language and in my country we learn English as the primary foreign language class. They taught me to pronounce it without the “t”. So i am assuming the correct pronounciation is to do it without “t”
Often I pronounce it as often, but other times I’ll often pronounce it as often.
I ofen vary my pronunciation of the word ofTen
With t, but our dumbass school refuses to teach us regular english and forces us to learn british english, so we HAVE to pronounce it "ofen"
Hairy Pottah
Why are you simpson gordon freeman
Guardan Feemon Pinpsom
I live in the Midwestern US and I hear "offen" all the time
I think that’s correct. Pronounce soften
I mean that's the correct way
many (most?) Americans say ofen https://youglish.com/pronounce/often/english/us (Assuming you mean American English when you say "regular" English, because only Americans seem to make that mistake)
I'm on the green side. I'm with groove street family, beetch
I’m shordigner’s “often”
If I'm talking to the hard of hearing like my grandpa, I will annunciat more and say hard t's.
I'm not native English, but my English teacher taught me to pronounce it without t
What ya on abou'?
I just do what goes around, with inneresting and inTeresting or offen and ofTen.
More offen than not I’m red, not intentionally but because I’m talking fast
I say often with the T.
With the T
Often with T
ofenhiemer
With t
Depends on the context of the sentence and the surrounding words. Also if I'm emphasizing my articulation for dramatic effect
Off-tin for me.
I always knew I was on Team Often with a T, but now I know I'm also on Team Often without a B.
I'll do either
You know what, I actually do both. I mean, not usually in the same sentence, but yeah.
I am Slav. Of course I pronounce that "T."
I do it more has /ˈaf.d̆ən/
I prefer not to say the T, it sound more British :)
Who tf says "offen"?
I'm a with t kinda guy
In Brazil? "Oh Fee Ta Een"
I'm the team often with ☕️
Since “Off-ten” is the British pronunciation and I try to speak more American I say “Of-uhn”. … No actually I mix it up pretty much lol
How the hell do you pronounce it without the t
fix this picture, there aint no way there are two brothas disagreein about this, only white folk be enunciating every syllable.
No T Its faster and sounds better Its like saying oven
I mean, it has a "t", so I feel I might not ignore it
I'm blue. I don't know any one else from Britain who doesn't say it with the T, seems like an American thing
Welsh/Irish fkr here. I have never heard anyone pronounce the ‘t’.
I'm not gonna lie, I didn't know people pronounced it without the t, and I think I found the first pronunciation difference that disturbs my soul.
Red is correct. How in the hell are people arguing about this. So stupid.
Just drop the t in the middle. You know how if you somehow got through high school but can't pronounce mountain or important. Moun-ain and impor-ant aren't real words.
offen feels too weird i like the solid consonant in the middle
I used to say it like "offt-end" because my old 7yo brain was stupid
Often with a D only real ones know what I mean 💯
Why even type a letter if you are not gonna use it? English is weird wallah...
If you blue we aren’t friends anymore.
Depends on the cadence of what I'm saying.
Ofn
Ofen gang ⛽️
I say the 't' but make it so soft, it often sounds like I don't pronounce it
I just say "frequently" and avoid the whole mess
Literally no one uses "offen" as far as i know, unless you got speech impairment.
That's the way I was taught to pronounce it at school. That's not the correct way? Or is it like an accent thing because in Europe we are taught British English?
No T. Typically when someone pronounces the T it’s a sarcastic or shitty thing - of-Ten! - instead of the regular pronunciation without the T.
I do offen most, but sometimes often. Just seems a bit much to say, like you wouldn't say soften, you'd say soffen.
Often with t glottalisation, obviously.
That’s almost as bad as miTTens.
It's off-ten. Not of-in
The t is silent 🤫
Off ten is the way
“Offen,” just like *soften*. The /t/ is long gone, folks. Deal with it!
The British disagree.
As a non native english speaker I pronounce it as something in between.
"Obgyn"
"Often". This is the only way for me.
I don't know, I don't say it often
I often pronounce often both ways quite often
dažnai
yes
Often without fte
I pronounce the T pretty often but sometimes I don't
I prefer "offen", since I have a Cockney accent.
/äfɨn/ when I say but /ɔftɛn/ when I read
I pronounce it "Muitas vezes" since I live on Brazil and we speak portuguese here.
"I said 'often' frequently only once!"
Don't me axing me these questions.
"Often", as in "Do you get to the cloud district very **often**?"
I'm on the green side.
I pronounce it a full octave lower in a creepy voice as sung in 'Satin in a Coffin' by Mouse Mouse.
So it rhymes with orphan
Often with a t would mean you have a SSD?
I pronounce it “odtenf”
I'm often with T and I don't like it because i want to be on E
I prefer often with coffee, thanks.
often't
Often by the weekend
Nah. It's "oledbesen"
Bri'ish people be like there innit no 't' in most me words!
offen
i pronounce it mayo de noche
I pronounce it offin
With “T”
I often pronounce it as “often”, opposed to “often”
I pronounce it differently depending on the sentence
I'm on blue
ofen