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

Roger Mills scripsit:

> Similarly button, batten, Clinton, Fenton, Canton (towns in US, not China),
> brighten, Brighton, muntin, mutton, sittin', hittin' etc. etc.
For me, Clinton, Fenton, Canton, and muntin (a word I never saw before)
don't have nasal plosion, whereas the others do, suggesting that it may
be lexicalized (I can't get a stable judgment on Brighton, probably because
I make it homonymous with brighten).

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