One of my favorite things about England is the glottal stop (the speech pattern where you don’t actually say the Ts in the middle of words like bottle and water). You know, like when Shrek is admiring Puss In Boots’ “wee li’l boots.” Or when Regina Spektor is singing about how it’s gonna get better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better and switches from glottal stoppage to regular pronunciation in the middle of the verse.
Just about every actual English person we know uses it, and we think it’s fantastic. It’s one of my personal favorite speech patterns because not only is it fun to use, but it’s fun to listen to and the name for it has a T in the middle, for crying out loud. Like how “lisp” has an S and “abbreviation” has five syllables.
As if that weren’t enough, they call peanuts still in the shell “monkey nuts” here.
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Those darn glottalizationist must be stopped! Look how they have already messed up our gh’s, and random b’s and the end of unfortunate words. What are they going to take out next, our beloved ck’s?