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glottal stops

n. (plural of glottal stop English)

Usage examples of "glottal stops".

I talked the same way at his age, fighting my rogue aitches and glottal stops.

Ng bursts foiih with a long string of twangy noises, pops, and glottal stops.

Later she gets up and asks me if she can make a phone call, and I say of course you can, you dont even have to ask me, and she spends a long time talking in Russian to someone I guess is her boyfriend, the glottal stops of the language made even harsher by her crying.

He talks like a dodgy geezer vicar, all cockiness and glottal stops and suspect solicitude.

When he rose beside them, the white-haired man was beaming down at Ben, rumbling and buzzing through a strangle of glottal stops.

Listening through his thick curtain of wine, Enderby thought he heard the veneers and inlays of Received English stripped roughly off, so that something like raw Lallans became audible, as spicy as home-pickled onions with its gutturals and glottal stops.

Even now he was perfectly steady and his dressings were perfectly neat, but his more or less neutral English was invaded by his native Scotch, with its curious glottal stops, strong aspirates and rolling r's, and his general attitude was more assured and loquacious than usual.

It bubbled with glottal stops and atonal whistles, and was beautiful enough, though few human audiences would have been able to discern a lullaby.

Whether they required chatting, whistling, clicking, harsh glottal stops, or signs, he'd been able to master them all.

There were tapes and tapes made of her clicks and stutters and glottal stops.