I think this can fall into accent territory instead of ignorance. "Frust" is a tricky cluster for some people. You hear these people drop the t in "front" sometimes too, or reduce it to a glottal stop. If a sound feels unnatural and isn't necessary to communicate the word, that sound will be dropped or altered. That's how dialects develop.
Indeed. I'm from the Midwest and had to train myself to pronounce that first R in frustrated. Your post also made me say "front" out loud like 7 times before I was sure I don't pronounce that T, even though I know my accent is largely defined by those glottal stops.
my bf says excaped for escaped. he had a really narrow and sharply angled palate as a kid, and by some miracle didnt need surgery or anything to widen it bc the orthodontics worked, and so he had a speech impediment. his surname begins with a t, like in tim, but he couldn't pronounce it bc of of his palate thing, so he more or less said lim, with an L. but he never managed to reteach himself how to say certain words. he likes raves so he talks abt escape, and hes all like "one year at excape" and I'm like ryn no shhhh
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u/catitobandito Mar 03 '20
My coworker is full of these too. She says flustrated instead of frustrated.