Consonants

/p, t, k/

Intervocalic and word-final /p, k/ are most usually glottalised. This is most noticeable in intervocalic position where there is simultaneous oral and glottal closure, with the oral closure then being released inaudibly prior to the audible release of the glottal closure, thus paper , baker .

This also occurs in the case of /t/, as in later , but more frequently, especially in the speech of younger people, glottaling occurs: . East Anglia appears to have been one of the centres from which glottaling has diffused geographically in modern English English. Trudgill (1988) showed for Norwich that  is the usual realization of intervocalic and word-final /t/ in casual speech, and that it is now also increasingly diffusing into more formal styles. There is an interesting constraint on the use of  and  in East Anglian English in that these allophones cannot occur before [ə] if another instance follows. Thus lit it has to be  rather than * .

In /nt/ clusters, the /n/ is frequently deleted if (and only if) the /t/ is realized as glottal stop: twenty , plenty , going to .