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xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech
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You pronounce the t in hot and then pronounce the p of potato?
Yeah. If I try going faster, it turns into "ht'ptayto". Like a hard stop with tongue against the roof of the mouth before the teeth.
Although admittedly, this is self-reporting.
I'm sitting here trying to replicate what that sounds like from your description and I've only succeeding in sounding like a madman.
Different accents, then.