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Date: 2009-01-20 09:58 am (UTC)Especially for d where it "should" be t, that's not that surprising - I think a "flapped", voiced pronunciation of /t/ between vowels is common in American English. (Though I'm not sure whether that makes "ladder" and "latter" homophones, or whether there's still a difference.)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervocalic_alveolar_flapping and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withgott_Effect, for example.