This is not important but wanted to throw it out there & see if anyone else has ever wondered about this, at all. And, just for starters, I’ve lived on both coasts and find it common on both. Do you notice that people often pronounce canter as “canner” and hunter as “hunners”?
Pourquoi?
Thanks.
No, I’ve never heard anyone not pronounce the “T” in those words. Sometimes its a bit swallowed in hunter, but not in Canter, the T is definitely there, at least in my part of the country.
Guilty. I’m from Georgia and I definitely drop the T’s from both words. lol.
Not here in the PNW! We pronounce the T, thank you very much :winkgrin:
Nope. Really glad you weren’t asking whether people pronounced them so they rhymed.
Yep, all the time. It’s just various regional accents.
From SC. I tend to drop the T’s
Oh my gosh, I never thought about this. I do not drop the T in canter. I certainly do drop the T in hunter. who knew
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Fellow PNWer here. I always say canter but I find that I say “hunner” under saddle/over fences. But when talking about the horse being a hunter or jumper I always say the “t” in hunter.
I hear it often - usually children and americans!!! The same people usually say “twenny” for “twenty” and “thirdy” for “thirty”.
What you hear around you is the way you end up speaking.
Deep southern upbringing and dialect here and pronounce T in both words.
always pronounce the "t"s. Had a radio newscaster here at one time who dropped the 't"s in lots of words like kitten, and it drove me crazy!
Never. Also from NY. We pronounce our Ts here. 
Another NY (west side of the state, not near the city) and everyone I know pronounces the T.
I’m a born and bred Georgian and I’m definitely guilty of dropping the T in canter, but I think I’m pretty good at pronouncing it in hunter!
When I get good and ticked off lunging a horse that doesn’t want to canter, I’ll pronounce the T with every ounce of my being to get the horse to move!
When I first read this I wasn’t even sure how one could pronounce those words without the ‘t’! However thinking about some accents I am sure it could be done. Never noticed it myself though!
Central Jersey -
Ca-ner
Hu-ner
Tre-n (Trenton - yeah, we drop an entire syllable)
I remember a student transferring into our high school from Massachusetts and the arguments about proper pronunciation. Apparently, they do not drop letters or syllables where he comes from.
True VT’ers don’t pronounce t’s. It’s “Ver-mohn”, in case you were wondering 
So yes, you’ll hear both “can-ner” and “hun-ner” around here.
PNW, and if I hear “hunners/jummers” one more time I am going to scream. Don’t know if I’ve heard “canner” though…
The expression I’m hearing more and more around here that makes me want to beat my head on the wall is Pros referring to their clients as “The Ladies”, generally in a condescending tone. As in, “I warmed up this horse so he’s ready for his lady”, or “well, that horse is good enough for the ladies”. WTF is wrong with referring to clients as amateurs? Or you know, CLIENTS?
After rolling it around for a day, it appears that I do both. If I’m just blabbing along in casual conversation, I pretty much always drop the Ts. Otherwise, I pronounce the T. And in lunging, it’s can-TER.
My accent is pretty much a mish-mash, with a Michigander base overlaid with 3 distinctly different southern dialects.
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