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RE: Critical (glottal) Stop

• From: "DloraH" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: Critical (glottal) Stop
• Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 21:02:32 -0400
• Importance: Normal
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

> In preparing my vocabulary lists, I have been searching for word pairs in
> which a glottal stop (') is a single distinguishing point.  It is far too
> easy for me to miss the stop unless I give it a bit of "special
> attention".

I know what you mean.  I use a photographic memory... but it's a low
resolution photo, so sometimes the tiny ' get's lost.


> This is the list I've compiled - Are there any others I may have missed?

pay   pay'
qay   qay'
Qay   Qay'
tlhoy tlhoy'
Suy   Suy'


My rhyming dictionary came in handy for this (ordered right-to-left, for
poetry, etc)

DloraH, BG

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