glottal "y"

[Yoram Meroz]

Thanks, but that's not quite what I meant.

Rather, I meant when a 'y' sounds like a glottal stop, or 'catch', for
example, "beyond" sounding like 'be-ond', or "buying" sounding like
'buy-ing'.


On 9/11/08 9:37 PM, "Tom Zurinskas" <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

> I hear a lot of epenthetic (inserted) "y"'s in SW Virginia and along Southern
> Appalachia.  For instance "The man hurt his head" sounds like ~~ Thu mayun
> hert hiz heyud ~~  I say it  below.  Perhaps that is what's meant by "glottal
> y"?
>
> http://www.daftdoggy.com/recorder/playmp3.php?id=7679

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