Date:  Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:33:14 -0400
From:  Beverly Flanigan <FLANIGAN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU>
Subject: Re: hypercorrect intervocalic /t/

  The use of aspirated /t/ in "better" etc. is commonly taught by
  Language Arts teachers like those I have in an evening class; they
  insist that it is their "duty" (flapped, of course, in their own
  natural speech) to teach kids how to enunciate "properly," and they
  feel personally attacked when I tell them it's not normal or necessary.
  But alas, I have a Linguistics colleague who also says [bEt[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]r].