Patrick:
> I want evidence that it exists outside of tiny
> enclaves like Long Gisland, and is found in
> registers outside of the lowest classes and people
> faking Britishness.
The rest of us know that the use of glottal stops
actually has nothing to do, in a broad sense, with
social class in English. Otherwise the Spice Girls
are part of the "lowest classes" and are to my
utter shock "faking Britishness". I did not know
the Spice Girls were Turkish, Patrick. Tell us more.
= gLeN
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