RE: Understanding the British.
June 16, 2010 at 3:59 pm
(June 16, 2010 at 7:42 am)Tiberius Wrote: (June 16, 2010 at 4:03 am)Pippy Wrote: Understanding the British, good luck. They don't even pronoun T's, just kind of leave them out. Allo, I am Bri-ish.
If they remove Don't Ask, Don't Tell, who will join the Navy?
I pronounce my T's. Only unruly children who haven't been taught correctly don't pronounce them. Even the lower class "chavs" pronounce them.
Incorrect!
The Glottal Stop is common to many English dialects. ie Cockney. I'm guilty myself.
Wikipedia Wrote:The glottal stop, or more fully, the voiceless glottal plosive, is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. In English the feature is represented for example by the hyphen in uh-oh! and by the apostrophe or ʻokina in Hawaiʻi among those using a preservative pronunciation of that name.
The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʔ. It is called the glottal stop because the technical term for the gap between the vocal folds, which is closed up in the production of this sound, is the glottis.