Re: Guttoral stop

Etienne Marais wrote:
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 ?

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 "glo''al stop". And "butter" was pronounced "Bu''oh", a short 0, and the h pronounced. It was the only H they did pronounce.

Paul Burke

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