to want to reintroduce the letter T into the English language?

[MrsSchadenfreude]

That's it really. Sick of glottal stops. Was sitting behind a woman on the train the other day, who was going through the alphabet with her daughter (Na'alie, sister Ka'ie) saying "Wha' le''er is tha'?"

But I think I am fighting a losing battle.

Yanbu. I haTe iT too. Forever pulling my dcs up on iT!

You are noT being unreasonable.

Thank you numpTysmummy and TrillianAsTra!

Oh yes. and remove the usurper k, restoring the letter g to its rightful place.

Or somethink like that.

Have you seen the activia ad? Silly woman clearly says "..think" instead of "...thing"

I refuse to buy it for that reason and that reason alone.

I need a life

Well, as a Scottish person I'd like to see the R reintroduced.

YABU a bit. It's just their accent.

My mum goes on about laziness - nonsense. It takes just as much effort (ie not much) to say think or thing (just a stop in a different place in the mouth), or Na!alie/Natalie (again, just a stop in a different place).

I'm a Londoner, so 't' has never been a big part of my life

good idea - then all the gobby school kids can pronounce the T in 'innit'

Agree totally, although in my house t seems to have been replaced by L lately, as in 'shall I gell it' or 'thats beller' etc. DD only 3 so am hoping to beat the letter t into her

I would also like to see 'the' reintroduced the 'f' put back in it's place.. or somefink like that anyway

YANBU. It's a real pet hate of mine and is bloody painful to listen to.

Am I correct in thinking that you want to see us all talking like 1950s BBC announcers?

Another southerner here that routinely forgets the T
It does make me giggle at the irony of it being called a Glottal stop!!(The only thing I can remember from my A level English!)

Yes please, MrsMattie. Yes please.

Oh Mrs Mattie, that would be absolutely super.

I am a Londoner too...

Yes quite agree, Shona, let's have the real r back. And the long vowels. No more of these wretched ay's and oh's. If Chaucer could do it, so can we.

Coming from Yorkshire originally, I am sometimes accused of over-using T's!

Now living much further down south, I hate the dropping of T's and utterly despise the seemingly popular phrase "I done it" (my MIL is actually the worst i've ever known for this but she was originally a Londoner) It's "I've done it" or "I did it" for goodness sake!!!

And don't get me started on textspeak...!

Well we moved our dses all the way to Scotland to escape from Estuary english!

I believe that the letter T is rationed in Essex, and people are just being very careful not to use up their coupons.

Language is always changing

YADNBU. I hate it too!

YABU

YANBu in the slightest. It's lazy and sloppy not to pronounce your t's, and something that I've forever pulling the DCs up for.

I hate to say it Stayingsunny - there are plenty of Scots who don't pronounce their t's! Usually the ones who are "proud to be Scoa'ish". A pet hate of mine

Can't bear it. My 2.11 year old DS2 says "bu-on moon" and I am forever saying "buTTon moon". Finally, yesterday, he got it. And we don't live anywhere near London.

I like a nice T myself.

YABU

I'd have to ask most of my family to start introducing 't' to their speech, which I would find

Patronising

Uncomfortable

Rude

It's how they speak. Have done for generations. They're not thickos. But speak with a regional accent that happens to drop 't' very frequently

Have I killed this one? Hope so, was a bit insulting IMO

I'm perfectly happy to keep it going - nothing wrong with pronouncing your t's. Why is a regional accent an excuse for sounding as if you can't be bothered to speak properly?