Re: Guttoral stop

to John of Aix: It is common, but not standard. I included Cockney in
the category "the urban dialect of London." My former teacher was from
Birmingham and he also used the sound a lot, which made him really
difficult to understand. My English was far worse than it is now, so we
could never have a proper conversation. This is what happens if you
have spent years learning only the standard dialect of a FL and are
suddenly confronted with people speaking a completely different one
(that is neither better nor worse).

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