Guttoral stop

[nq:1]What is the guttoral stop ? I have assumed it to be the 'g' sound some folk use to pronounce words like 'nothing' (nothing-k) Is this a regionalism or simply poor English ?[/nq]
Do you mean the glottal stop?
If so, it's typically when someone drops the "t" sound in the middle or at the end of a word, so instead of saying butter, they say buh'er (how do you transliterate a glottal sto

[nq:2]What is the guttoral stop ? I have assumed it ... (nothing-k) Is this a regionalism or simply poor English ?[/nq]
[nq:1]Do you mean the glottal stop? If so, it's typically when someone drops the "t" sound in the middle or ... say poor English. The troof is probally a bi' of bofe. :-) (I used to live in Pawtsmuf) Cheers Tony[/nq]
Lol, so what is the nothing-k thing ?

[nq:1]What is the guttoral stop ? I have assumed it to be the 'g' sound some folk use to pronounce words like 'nothing' (nothing-k) Is this a regionalism or simply poor English ?[/nq]
I don't know. GuttUral by the way. But the glottal stop is used in dialect (in Salford, Lancashire, about 40 years ago, mostly by naughty boys). It's pronounced "gloal stop". And "butter" was pronounced "Bu

[nq:1]What is the guttoral stop ? I have assumed it to be the 'g' sound some folk use to pronounce words like 'nothing' (nothing-k) Is this a regionalism or simply poor English ?[/nq]
Looks like the guttural stop is the Arabic 'ayn' which is (to my ears) similar to the glo''al stop.
If 'nothing' is pronoiunced with a final k, it's usually 'nuffink', and is South-Eastern mostly (I think).

[nq:1]What is the guttoral stop ?[/nq]
It's a glottal stop, not a guttural stop
It just means the 'break' that some people make in word like 'better' which they pronounce 'be'er'.

[nq:1]Lol, so what is the nothing-k thing ?[/nq]
Pronouncing a "k" at the end of the word, usually combined with the conversion of the "th" to "ff" is a fairly common and intensely irritating regionalism emanating from the vicinity of London. It is a feature of "Estuary English" and the technical term for it is ignorance, or possibly laziness.
Pronouncing a hard "g" at the end of words end

[nq:1]Pronouncing a "k" at the end of the word, usually combined with the conversion of the "th" to "ff" is ... end of words ending in "ing" is very common in and around NottinGham and is merely an interesting local variation.[/nq]
I wonder if the two are both descendants of an ancient form. "K" and "g" sounds are often related.

Phil C.

As far as I know, when a French word begins with a vowel, the glottal stop precedes it. This does not happen in English, but many dialects (e.g. the urban dialects of London, Edinburgh, etc.) use the glottal stop in words such as "little, bottle" (li?l) (bo?l) and "button, mutton" (ba?n) (ma?n) (mind you, this isn't true phonetic spelling). The glottal stop doesn't seem widespread in American Engl

[nq:1]What is the guttoral stop ? I have assumed it to be the 'g' sound some folk use to pronounce words like 'nothing' (nothing-k) Is this a regionalism or simply poor English ?[/nq]
If you are French (in exile in the Western Cape), describing a glottal stop is difficult because it is rarely used in French, but it is a sudden closing/opening of the vocal chords (glottis). The effect is to giv

[nq:2]What is the guttoral stop ? I have assumed it ... (nothing-k) Is this a regionalism or simply poor English ?[/nq]
[nq:1]If you are French (in exile in the Western Cape), describing a glottal stop is difficult because it is rarely ... forget about the glottal stop unless you want to pass as English without the slightest trace of a foreign accent.[/nq]
sor'ed may
(sorted mate)