here the short answer is that yes generally it is especially in modern english. this is normally pronounced as soften soften so ignore the t. however it used to be in older english that the t was pronounced. and it is sometimes still used today it is not incorrect just to say soften.
Some verbs with silent “t”—like “soften” and “moisten”—were created when the suffix “-en” was added to an earlier adjective ending in “st” or “ft.” In the case of “fasten,” the ending was added even before the verb came into English from old Germanic languages.
Silent Medial T's
Similarly, the medial \t\ in words like soften, hasten, and fasten was originally pronounced, as the -en was added to base words that were recognizable (soft, haste, fast).
In all of these the t is silent. There are no exceptions: no words with this spelling in which it is usual to pronounce t. (Compare pistol ˈpɪstl, crystal ˈkrɪstl, etc., with a different spelling.)
In English phonology, t-glottalization or t-glottalling is a sound change in certain English dialects and accents, particularly in the United Kingdom, that causes the phoneme /t/ to be pronounced as the glottal stop [ʔ] ( listen) in certain positions.
The word pizza is from Italian and the spelling is still Italian in many languages (in all languages using Latin alphabets that I know of), in Italian it's pronounced /pittsa/ with a "long" (or "double" as I would call it in Norwegian) t sound.
Both are correct, according to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed.). However, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.) treats the version with the audible “t” as a variant that occurs in educated speech but is considered unacceptable by some.
When we have the word 'exact', we will make a True T because it's part of an ending consonant cluster. Exact, tt, tt. But when we add the -ly ending, it now comes between two consonants. You'll hear a lot of native speakers say 'exactly', with no T sound.
The phenomenon itself is known as “T-glottalization.” It occurs when a speaker swallows the T sound in a word rather than speaking it aloud. We hear it when words like “kitten” and “water” are pronounced like “KIH-en” and “WAH-er.” Let's talk about how this happens, and whether we should expect more of it.
If you soften something or if it softens, it becomes less hard, stiff, or firm. Soften the butter mixture in a small saucepan. If one thing softens the damaging effect of another thing, it makes the effect less severe.
There is a silent "d" in the word "Wednesday" .
You would be wrong. Surprisingly, Moët is pronounced with a hard 't' and not a silent 't' as is typical for most of the French language. You could pronounce Moët as mo-wet or even moh-et, but it's definitely not moh-way.
Here are three spelling patterns that you can use to determine if a T is silent or articulated. Don't articulate the /t/ when you are saying words that fit into these spelling patterns. 1. When a t comes after an n as in the words: winter, interview & twenty.
Most Finns don't know that the letter t in the form buffet is silent (and that the letter u is pronounced [y]) and are not sure how to decline this form because no native Finnish nouns end in -et in the singular.
And while “often” is traditionally pronounced “offen”, it is now commonly heard as “off-ten”.
The letter T is also silent in a lot of French loanwords such as ballet, gourmet, rapport, ricochet, buffet, crochet, valet, debut, and beret.
/t/ sound is pronounced like [ts] in British English.