...and Zaïre. I've seen the occasional umlaut in English, but I'd never really associated it with a glottal stop. I suspect this has to do with both English being — as should be expected — remarkably inconsistent about that usage, and speaking a bit of German.
I wonder if the umlaut is actually a glottal stop, and if it would work even if put above a consonant glottal stop. I somehow doubt it on both points. And yet, there it is, three different uses of an umlaut to indicate a glottal stop. Who ever said English was an unaccented language?
In my layman's understanding of linguistics, that's pretty much what a glottal stop is. I think I've seen cooperate spelled that way, but not often. And of course the glottal stop disappeared when the Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society got shortened to The Coop.
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Date: 2017-11-25 12:32 am (UTC)I wonder if the umlaut is actually a glottal stop, and if it would work even if put above a consonant glottal stop. I somehow doubt it on both points. And yet, there it is, three different uses of an umlaut to indicate a glottal stop. Who ever said English was an unaccented language?
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