Right up there with vocal fry, this is annoying enough to get me to walk away. Two dozen fingernails on a chalkboard.

The glottal stop is not pronouncing the final T in words. Examples would be "Mou in" rather than mountain, or "kih en" rather than kitten, or "bu in" rather than button.

While you may not have known what it is called, I'm certain you've heard it. If you watch Newsmax, one of their (female) weekend hosts uses it frequently. Yes, a professional "journalist" talking like some flunky from the hood.

I'm not certain if these people (mostly female) are trying to sound cool, or British, or what, but they come off sounding like idiots.

Stop it!

It seems mostly to be a Yankee thing, and an inner city Ebonics thing. Not that it had occurred to me before, but, yes, this affect is found primarily in females.

Watching F1, there are a lot of the Bri'ish who do this. I'm just it's an affect from one region or the other of that island For a country smaller than Colorado, they sure have a lot of distinctions from place to place.

I worked for an international tech company for a few years. Engineers on our team were from Liverpool, Dublin, Belfast, Morocco, France, Spain, Germany, and a bunch of other places.

The "official" language for team meetings, and for documentation, was English.

The team member whose English speech was most difficult for me to understand was an engineer from Glasgow; his glottal stop was extreme.

Thanks, now I know what to call this affectation.
It seems an odd thing to do, making speech more of an effort, no natural flow. Who needs making things harder?

It’s also a cockney accent….with the “H”.

Ello!

so, how does someone who uses the ' glottal stop' pronounce it?

gla-le op?

I live in Louisiana . From one end of the State to the other you will encounter a huge variety of accents , different pronunciations , etc. It's just something I got used to many years ago and I don't even notice it much anymore .

Young'uns is an example that's been around for many decades

The adding an “r” to the end of words is what drives me nuts.

Australian English is a particularly good example of this phenomenon.

I watch the show Bluey with my kids so anytime they say words like:

Bingo > becomes Bingoer
No > becomes Noer

Not even sure how this became a thing.

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English speech was most difficult for me to understand was an engineer from Glasgow

I too once worked in a small international setting, 6 people in the office, a Japanese, a Peruvian, a Norwegian, a Korean, and a person from Glascow who was impossible to understand when he got excited.

In company where “useless as tits on a boar hog” wouldn’t be appropriate, I use “useless as a trailing French ‘t’”.

E.g., “croissant”: krwa · san

I've noticed the glottal stop, but never had the name for it.

Two other affects that bug me are eXpecially and aXE as in let me axe you a question. Is there a proper name for those as well?

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Two other affects that bug me are eXpecially and aXE as in let me axe you a question. Is there a proper name for those as well?

We hear "excape" and "excetera" so frequently that my wife and I have started to use those as a joke.

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English speech was most difficult for me to understand was an engineer from Glasgow

...a person from Glascow who was impossible to understand when he got excited.

Aye! Ya bastards always be blaming the Scots!

Luckily I watched enough Simpsons. Grounds-keeper Willie taught me how to understand these proud people!

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Some can only claim a 25 letter alphabet.

Oh no you di'ent!

If everybody spoke perfect English it would be one less thing to criticize people about . That's no fun .

My rant: Haf a goot-un.

Is now some kind of substitute for “have a good day”