To want to reintroduce the letter "T" into the English language and to

[MrsSchadenfreude]

stamp on the DDs' little feet every time I hear the dreaded glottal stop. Sorry, that should be glo'al stop.

Farkin Milton Keynes.

Actaully, I don't know why I put all that poncy stuff at the beginning, I don't speak posh at all, it was a very feeble attempt to give myself gravitas, but anyway, I still think that a glottal stop can be quite the thing.

I will now go and post on Jura's Thread Kill Ratio thread.

There UQD, I knew you'd be there with me, murmuring "buttons" as you sit at the computer. This is ridiculous. It's bedtime.

Most children develop a glottal stop for most of their school days, don't they? Let it be.

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Is crackfox suggesting there are no glottal stops in Scotland? Cheeky vixen

I definately pronounce the t in buttons.

MrsBabookaloo - I have a full quota of ts in buttons but find the glottal stop in chocolate easier - saying chocolate buttons is much harder than saying chocola'e buttons.

The thing that winds me up most of all (I have got over the terminal glottal stop but can't stand the 'twenny' thing) is the new terminal -ah instead of -er.
As in: mothah, sistah, ovah, whadevah.

And DH has a nasty habit of replacing th with f, especially in three. He doesn't want to do it so I do mention it when he starts to slip back into his old ways.

Although all accents are valid, it can make a difference to how some professionals are perceived - when I worked in hospitals, (Oxford and NW Surrey, fair enough), it was always a bit of a shock when the doctors had strong regional accents and it did cause me a bit of a hangup in terms of how good they were. I KNOW that's wrong, but it still happened as a reflex reaction (strong regional accent = not so professional). [ducks to avoid barrage of abuse]

Up here in Sunderland, it's the G that gets dropped, Lovin, somethin, watchin, readin, etc!