Word: glottal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HUNTING COCKROACHES A vibrant farce by Polish Emigre Janusz Glowacki evoking the plight of refugee intellectuals: an actress who cannot overcome her glottal-stop accent and her novelist husband who looks for his lost sense of context and insight by puzzling over the rectilinear shapes of Western states...
They take it again, more intensely. "No glottal stop on the 'I,' please," Barber says, breaking in. "I know it's hard." They give him a wide-open "I," then try the hymn again...
...briefest possible description of the music, Geller says little, which is just as well. His listeners happily acknowledge that he has the least polished delivery in broadcasting. The accent is distinctly north-of-Boston, which suits them fine: the first syllable of the word Gloucester comes out long and glottal, as if the bottom has temporarily dropped out of Geller's voice. The letter r plays hooky...