@GrammarTable@pattmlatimes Not strictly relevant to your point, but I (UK) would actually both say and expect to hear “he’s six foot tall” much more naturally than “he’s six feet tall”.
@RocknRichRockin@IMcMillan Yes, that’s exactly what it is. I would often say one at the end of gerri’ as well. But basically the word ‘the’ is pronounced as a glottal stop in Yorkshire and Lancashire.
@PIE_Animals I love that this lenition rule was so opaque that it led to the re-analysis of the (presumably very common) word sister in Scottish Gaelic, which is now piuthair (< mo phiuthair)
@GrammarTable I could say either, depending on formality, so whether or not I pronounced the <h>. But in writing always a - the alternative seems almost deliberately perverse.
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