Translation query

[William Ryan]

Sorry - yes, I was a bit imprecise - certainly a glottal stop cannot be 
a syllable, but it is usually described as a speech sound, not silent. 
It can be an allophone of  t  as in this word. I have forgotten how to 
do phonetic transcriptions, not to mention putting them into emails - 
the pronunciation would be something like 'feea-uh'.
Will Ryan

Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
> William Ryan wrote:
>
>> ...
>> In London, England, uneducated English for 'theatre' would be 
>> 'featre', in which the last syllable is usually a glottal stop. ...
>
> Could you clarify this, please?
>
> A glo'al stop alone is pure silence, so it cannot be a syllable. Do 
> you mean that the syllable /ends/ with a glo'al stop? Or /begins/ with 
> one?
>



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