Interestingly, there is a town in Missouri named Nevada and they pronounce it nuh-VAY-duh. There's another city like that... ... dunno. The name of Houston Street in Manhattan is pronounced /'h&wst@n/. I'm so used to this

I don't know from linguistics and phonetics (we're sending Young Aaron to grad school for that), but I think the ... context where there's a closely linked following word beginning with a vowel, however, it turns into a flap sound (*)

"In final position (t) is aspirated and shortens the vowel before it, whilst (d) is particularly weak and makes only ... do you pronounce the "t" sound when it's in the final position of the word, like "cent",