You ' re pretty rad ! Thanks <| sep |> I have my doubts about that . Hillary wanted to win , of course , but up until Trump made it obvious that he could win and change things I think the dems and the media would have by and large been happy to have a Republican win so they could have been stuck with the bag from Obamas failures and get vilified . Sure Jeb or whomever would have been called racist , but the sheer insanity of the hostility towards Trump makes me think they were panicking . <| sep |> Not the best , but at least that ' s one step towards to a better direction . <| sep |> Off the top of my head I know that is a glottal stop . Some dialects of English have glottal stops between two ts , like in butter . A glottal stop means your vocal folds come together and close your glottis the space between your vocal folds . I ' m guessing they ' re denoted differently because while they may sound the same , they ' re produced differently . Edit coincidentally for my phonetics class I ' m doing a phonemic inventory of Hebrew and my friendsource for Hebrew gave me ba ' al English orthography as part of the minimal set for a glottal stop . Which means husbandspouseowner . If that helps with pronunciationidentifying the sound which I ' m not sure you need help with haha . Edit 2 is a voiced pharyngeal fricative . Soooo I ' m pretty sure that sounds nothing like a glottal stop . Jk about my previous statment about them sounding the same haha . EDIT 3 SORRY I ' M KINDA BORED RIGHT NOW TBH so voiced pharyngeal fricative 3 Ye 1 GtVLH 08 and glottal stopOXXj 20 ojaE . The words plosives and stops are used interchangeably . Edit 4 Hello again ! According to , and mostly behave the same way now . But changes in adjoining vowels often testify to the former presence of a pharyngeal or epiglottal articulation for . So historically it was a pharyngeal sound but the language changed and now it ' s not ?