Daily Squeeze: [ɪʔwǝz], [ɪwǝz], [z]

In North American English we often don’t pronounce ‘t’ clearly at the end of a word, especially if the next word begins with a consonant. Let’s listen to how a very common phrase like “it was” might sound.

Often the /t/ in “it” will be replaced by a glottal stop.

Sometimes the /t/ will simply disappear, so “it was” sounds like [ɪwǝz].

In very quick speech, [ɪwǝz] might be reduced even more, to sound like [ɪz] or even just [z].