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Rh sound followed by two voiced consonants; as a rule in those ending in a long vowel or diphthong; those consisting of short vowels followed by h, m, n, ng, with following voiceless consonant take the glottal stop in the dialect of Sealand, but not in that of Jutland, while r in this position is incompatible with glottal stop; sometimes it occurs in words having a short vowel before one single voiced consonant).

2) many dissyllables in -el, -en and -er; Ex.: Æ*sel donkey, Vin*ter winter, A*sen donkey.

3) the radical syllable of many compound verbs, adjectives, adverbs and nouns derived from verbs, where the glottal stop is lacking in the non-compound words: Ex.: (h)jemsø*ge to visit, Me'dskyl*dig accomplice, Ankla*ger accuser.

4) in some foreign words: Kano*n, Stude*nt, Ame*rika.

78. The glottal stop serves to distinguish pairs of words which otherwise would have the same sound:

1) the definite form of monosyllables from that of dissyllables ending in -e, the former with, the latter without glottal stop.

2) the plural form of monosyllables, ending in -cr (with stop) and of dissyllables, ending in -r (without stop).