GRAMMAR CRIMES DIVISION

Glottal stops are made by cutting airflow — basically punctuation in your windpipe.

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A glottal stop is the consonant sound in the middle of “uh-oh,” produced by briefly closing the vocal folds. It’s a normal phoneme in many languages and can change word meaning, not just pronunciation style.

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