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Did your elementary school teacher make it clear whether you should pronounce the middle two t's in gotten as a glottal or a held stop? What do you think of that advice today? How might it vary depending on where in the anglophone world you live, and your age?

Did your elementary school teacher make it clear whether you should pronounce the middle two t's in gotten as a glottal or a held stop?

Yes

What do you think of that advice today?

It is a small part of my English enunciation.

How might it vary depending on where in the anglophone world you live, and your age?

Significantly.

But I did not author a critique regarding English prose and the nature of prevalent sentence structures therein.

The point is that language, both written and spoken, changes through time and space.

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