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While the parent is incorrect about wait, he/she is correct about T-glottallization in the word button. The glottalization of the T in button is even listed in the wikipedia article you linked.

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Yes, but even though T-glottalization in button is happening in the US now, that was not true historically. It is changing from budd'n to 'buh-un'

It seems I messed up the definition of glottalized but unless I am deliberate I also barely pronounce the t in wait.

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