I heard people saying “Of-fen” as well as “Of-ton”.
Till now I have been using the first one but few days ago I had an interviewer who pronounced often “Of-Ton” while interviewing.
Answer
The ‘t’ used to be pronounced, but then was lost, but the pronunciation with a ‘t’ is slowly coming back (because of the spelling).
Dictionaries will provide the ‘t’ pronunciation as a variant. Note that ‘soften’ is always pronounced without the ‘t’ currently.
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Source : Link , Question Author : Vral , Answer Author : Mitch
