Examples
Examples from English include:
- glottalization of voiceless stops in word-final position: for example, the word stop may be pronounced with a plain unaspirated, or with a glottalized,
- the word economics may be pronounced with /i/ or /ɛ/ in the first syllable; although individual speakers may prefer one or the other, and although one may be more common in some dialects than others, both forms are encountered within a single dialect and sometimes even within a single idiolect
- the comparative of many disyllabic adjectives can be formed either with the word more or with the suffix -er, for example more stupid or stupider.
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