Re: USAGE: Glottal stop for /t/ (was Re: 2nd person pronoun for god)

> > Barbara Babbled;
> > In the UK the most notable dialects that use the glottal stop
> > (unaspirated) as a replacement for medial and final 't's are Scots
> > (particularly Glaswegian) London, and Thames Valley.
> Pavel Posted;
> Um? I was in Oxford (that _is_ Thames Valley right?) last month - well,
> I'd have noticed it. But I _never_ heard anything like that around. It
> was all clear and crisp RP-style [t(_h)]. I guess we should ask Joe on
> this =)
Barbara Babbles;
I live in the Thames Valley; Reading. I jaunt up to Oxford for the
Bookstores and I got my qualifications there ;-).

Oxford has an accent, with social stratifications, which is all it's
own, but which is incredably simalier to that othere famous univeristy
town, Cambridge, hence when the accent is spoken of it's called
"Oxbridge" ;-)

Here in Reading the original "native" accent sounded a bit like West
Country, but it's been swamped by an influx (mostly from london) of
people and the Thames Valley accent (and its close cousins) now
predominates.