Tips:

• Pronounce the vowel in this word as the short vowel
  /ɛ/—like the vowel in the word “bed”—and not as
  /ɪ/ . (Drop the jaw and tongue sufficiently—that is, open the mouth more— to pronounce
  /ɛ/.)
• Pronounce the letter “t” as
  /d/ when it links into a vowel at the beginning of the next word, which it often does, as shown in the first practice sentence.
• Stop-but-do-not-explode the “t” —/t̚/—when it is followed in the next word by another consonant, as shown in the second practice sentence.
• Explode the “t” very lightly when this word is the last word in the sentence, as shown in the third practice sentence.