Editing British English (section)

=== T-stopping ===
Once regarded as a Cockney feature, in a number of forms of spoken British English, {{IPA|/t/}} has become commonly realised as a [[glottal stop]] {{IPA|[ʔ]}} when it is in the intervocalic position, in a process called [[T-glottalisation]]. National media, being based in London, have seen the glottal stop spreading more widely than it once was in word endings, ''not'' being heard as "no{{IPA|[ʔ]}}" and ''bottle of water'' being heard as "bo{{IPA|[ʔ]}}le of wa{{IPA|[ʔ]}}er". It is still stigmatised when used at the beginning and central positions, such as ''later'', while ''often'' has all but regained {{IPA|/t/}}.<ref name="Trudghill56">{{cite book|last=Trudgill|first=Peter |author-link=Peter Trudgill|title=Language in the British Isles|year=1984|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge, England|isbn=0-521-28409-0|pages=56–57}}</ref> Other consonants subject to this usage in Cockney English are ''p'', as in pa{{IPA|[ʔ]}}er and ''k'' as in ba{{IPA|[ʔ]}}er.<ref name="Trudghill56" />