"di?nt" (with glottal stop)

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>just a warning...  the spelling <di'nt> (or similar things) is often
>used to code a pronunciation in which the intervocalic voiced tap is
>simply deleted.  not the same thing as a pronunciation with an
>intervocalic glottalish bit.

I'm sure that's right for <di'nt>, <din't>, <di'n't>.

I suppose that <di'int>, <di'ent>, <di'unt> tend to refer to pronunciations
with more or less of a glottal stop ... probably still not reliably though.

-- Doug Wilson