Re: [tied] Glottal stops and Cockney dialect

I read years ago that the opposite was happening in Britain itself; the article stated that young aristos such as Di's Sloan Rangers set showed a trend of adopting the glottal stop and other speech patterns of the hoi polloi.

Max

I am sorry to ask such an apparently off-topic question, but what is the status of the London (UK) Cockney dialect? The question arises because the Cockney pronunciation of `t' between vowels is widely used in language textbooks to explain how to pronounce the glottal stop; this example will become invalid if standard English via the public media obliterates Cockney along with all other English

regional dialects.