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#630 - Valerie Fridland - Why Is Everyone Saying ‘Like’ and ‘Um’ All The Time?

Modern Wisdom

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The Role of Glottal Stops in Speech

Christopher: I've worked with the vocal coach Miles for two years now to try and just give myself a little bit more of a middle England. If you're American you don't have any teas in that butter oh it's deese well it's actually called a flap it'sactually called a flap but that's a that's for a different episode. Christopher: The glottal stop which is a perfect example of a feature that has a really strong social stigma attached so if you say but or whatoh my god like you know linguistic argument or argument are no are  even I can even say that word it's linguist hell.

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