"di?nt" (with glottal stop)

[Beverly Flanigan]

This deleted tap [dInt] or [dIn?] is what I hear in my nieces in Minnesota,
and I assume it's widespread.  I glottalize intervocalically, as do most
people I know here in Ohio.  Does anyone say [dIDnt] except perhaps in
formal speech?  (D = flap, n is syllabic.)

At 01:14 AM 11/16/2004, Zwicky wrote:

>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 suspect that ben zimmer's examples include some with an intervocalic
>glottal stop and some with no intervocalic consonant at all.  this is
>not to deny that some of them have glottal stops, possibly from a
>catchphrase.
>
>arnold