WakinUniverseJoDec 9
Les anglais ont tellement tout bu le thé que certaines personnes le prononcent même plus. #GlottalStop
Matt HodgkinsonMay 11, 2025

At my work's annual meeting, we did an exercise of telling a colleague a difficult phrase in your native language.

I chose bɔ́'əl ó wóː'ə, which they couldn't understand and didn't believe was English.

To many southern Brits, it is of course "bottle of water"!

#BritishEnglish #Pronunciation #EnglishPronunciation #GlottalStop

Rachel W.Feb 26, 2025
I'm fascinated with linguistics. My last post made me wonder..
Does anyone else notice that Gen Z English speakers tend to have a glottal stop in their speech, i.e. "certain" = "cer-in" and so on. I notice it regardless of their region, so it's not a regional accent.
As someone who had a mild speech impediment as a kid, I typically don't comment on speech, but admittedly listening to this drives me crazy.
Maybe I'm just old. 😂
#genz #glottalstop #speech
Show threadIFR (she/her)Jun 21, 2024

I think, specifically it’s the increased use of the #GlottalStop that makes me sound “proper Manc”, I tend not to do that often. Tiredness (or maybe more accurately laziness when I’m tired) makes it more prominent.

I don’t know.
Or even care, honestly.

I jus think it’s #interesting.

Show threadRaphaelSep 25, 2023
#linguistics #phonology #phonemes #phoneme #GlottalStop
MoaniJun 23, 2023
I was trying to say "there are no seals in Seal Beach" -- "ʻAʻohe sila o Seal Beach" and my kumu corrected me because it came out like "ʻAʻohe sila ʻo Seal Beach." I need to get used to putting a #glide between the "a" of "sila" and the possessive "o," otherwise it becomes a name-indicator "ʻo". #speakhawaiian #olelohawaii #languages #glottalstop #okina
MoaniJun 23, 2023
My #1 problem trying to speak #Hawaiian is that my. Tongue. Wants. To. Put. A. Full. Glottal. Stop. Between. Every. Word. Especially when I am trying to speak clearly!!!! That is bad in Hawaiian because the glottal stop is a component of a word (or not), and you canʻt just throw them in there or you might change the meaning. #speakhawaiian #olelohawaii #languages #glottalstop #okina
MoaniMay 9, 2023
I’ve been getting accustomed to using #Hawaiian alphabetical order when looking things up in the Hawaiian dictionaries… it’s a little different than #English #alphabeticalOrder because all the vowels come first and all the words that start with ʻokina (indicating a #glottalStop) come last. My #hawaiianWordOfTheDay is “ʻā pele” == “lava flow”, but I don’t have a picture of a #lavaFlow so you get a picture of this dictionary page instead!   #hwotd
remotevoicesDec 1, 2022
Just listening to the Floating Limb Christmas EP "Yule", with thematic tracks by 4 of their bands. #bandcamp #SphagnumMoss #SunDoSilver #Glottalstop #CrookPeak
https://floatinglimb.bandcamp.com/album/yule
YULE, by Floating Limb

4 track album

Floating Limb
Head·word /ˈhedˌwɜː(ɹ)d/ n.Nov 29, 2022

Three years ago (25 Nov. 2019), I tweeted one of my favourite revelations about glottal stops:

Let's take a moment to appreciate that there are two different vertical lines, which can represent the glottal stop /ʔ/, and they both have descriptive, diminutive names. I don't know which is cuter: the “little stick” (palochka, ⟨ӏ⟩ ) or the “little skip” (saltillo, ⟨ꞌ⟩ ).

#saltillo #palochka #GlottalStop #Unicode