Example sentences for: glottal

How can you use “glottal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (It symbolizes a glottal stop.)

  • Aberdonians have the Doric, with its quines girls and loons boys, Glaswegians bombard you with The Patter, famous for its infamous glottal stop and raw, street humor.

  • And, in 1989, John Honey, an English professor and phonetics expert, wrote Does Accent Matter? [rev. XVI,1,10] in which he champions the cause of teaching the Queen's English (RP, or received pronunciation) in order to achieve social and economic equality for those who are passed over in the job market because of unacceptable regional accents, such as the nasal twangs and glottal stops of Cockey, Liverpudlian, and Glaswegian.

  • The ruminative uh , which most people can faithfully reproduce, used to be spelled as unh , in an attempt to get in that glottal effect, but all it did was mislead youngsters into pronouncing an n where none was intended.


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