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You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. It seems a generation is emerging among us that has removed the “t” from the ...

A reader asked me why some people omit the "t" sound in certain words. I was happy to learn the practice had a fun name: T-glottalization. I learned a couple of other things, too. The vocal cords are ...

"I'm a PhD student in Historical Linguistics in Zürich, and I've got a glottal stop tattoo on the pinkie of my left hand. It is one of the letters of the International Phonetic Alphabet and it ...

‘HOLY SHIITE: Newsweek Retracts Its Deadly Toilet Tale,” was the headline of the May 17 New York Post. This pun of questionable taste, which was not calculated to further endear the American media to ...

Listen to one end of a phone conversation, and you’ll probably hear a rattle of ah’s, um’s and mm-hm’s. Our speech is brimming with these fillers, yet linguistic researchers haven’t paid much ...

A mother's battle for her daughter's name has become a fight for representation of her traditional language — all thanks to one character: ʔ. Sahaiʔa May Talbot was born on Feb. 15, 2014, to mother ...

“I’m a PhD student in Historical Linguistics in Zürich, and I’ve got a glottal stop tattoo on the pinkie of my left hand. It is one of the letters of the International Phonetic Alphabet and it ...