Re: glottals

David Barrow wrote:

> Joe wrote:
>
>>> Quoting Barbara Barrett <barbarabarrett@...>:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Barbara Babbles;
>>>> Not certain about [h/], but it's in there if you can get the Bahrain
>>>> channel
>>>> on your satellite sevice and listen to Arabic being spoken.
>>>>
>>>> [h] final and the glottal stop [?] can be heard in english accents
>>>> such as
>>>> Irish and London.
>>>> "Magrath" is pronounced as /ma grah/ or sometimes /ma?grah/. Londoners
>>>> replace post volic [t] with [?] so "hot" becomes /h;@?/ and "butter"
>>>> becomes
>>>> /b;v?3:/
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> Surely [hQ?], and [bV?3].  And not confined to London, either.  In the
>> younger genaration, this has spread word-finally all over England,
>> especially the southeast.
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> [bV?3] not [bV?@]?

It varies, I think.  I've heard both.  The latter is probably more
usual, though.