GUEST,loki, said what about the never-pronounced "t" our Yankee cousins favour?
As in "I hate going to the dennis"

I don't know what "Yankees" you're listening to - are you referring to the entire US or the population that lives in the east, north of the Mason-Dixon line? Either way, I've never heard American native-speakers drop the "t" in words like "dentist."

SRS