tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 27 21:53:45 2003
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RE: the glottal stop
From: Alan Anderson [mailto:[email protected]]
Subject: RE: the glottal stop
>How about the words "honor" and "heir"? I believe that's the kind of
thing David was talking about. I was taught in school that a carefully
pedantic pronunciation of those words *does* have a pure vowel at the
beginning, sans explosion.
I use a glottal stop. I was never taught to use a pure vowel. As I
understand we leave the "h" off these words because of their French
heritage. Which begs the question, do the French say a pure vowel for a
word that begins with "h"? When I was a fluent speaker of French, I'm
sure I used a glottal stop, but I never paid enough attention to notice
if native speakers used a glottal stop there (in fact, I didn't know
what a glottal stop was at that time). Anyone out there able to comment
on this?
Jeremy