well in broad Cockney. Broad is used in words such as bath, path, demand. This originated in London in the 16th–17th centuries and is also part of Received Pronunciation (RP). T-glottalisation: use of the glottal stop as an allophone of in various positions, including after a stressed syllable. Glottal stops also occur, albeit less frequently for and , and occasionally for mid-word consonants. For example, Richard Whiteing spelt "Hyde Park" as Hy' Par'''. Like and light can be homophones. "Clapham" can be said as Cla'am (i. e., ). may also be flapped intervocalically, e.g. utter . London are often aspirated in intervocalic and final environments, e.g., upper , utter , rocker , up , out , rock , where RP is traditionally described as having the unaspirated variants. Also, in broad cockney at least, the degree of aspiration is typically greater than in RP, and may often also involve some degree of affrication . Affricatives may be encountered in initial, intervocalic, and final position. This feature results in Cockney being often mentioned in textbooks about Semitic languages while explaining how to pronounce the glottal stop. Th-fronting: can become in any environment. "thin", "maths". can become in any environment except word-initially when it can be . "they", "bother".Yod-coalescence in words such as tune or reduce (compare traditional RP ). The alveolar stops , are often omitted in informal Cockney, in non-prevocalic environments, including some that cannot be omitted in Received Pronunciation. Examples include Dad's gonna and turn left. H-dropping. Sivertsen considers that is to some extent a stylistic marker of emphasis in Cockney. Diphthong alterations: → : "beet" → : "bait" → or even in "vigorous, dialectal" Cockney. The second element may be reduced or absent (with compensatory lengthening of the first element), so that there are variants such as . This means that pairs such as laugh-life, Barton-biting may become homophones: , . But this neutralisation is an optional, recoverable one: "bite" → : "choice" → or a monophthongal , perhaps with little lip rounding, or : "boot" → this diphthong typically starts in the area of the London , . The endpoint may be , but more commonly it is rather opener and/or completely unrounded, i.e. or . Thus, the most common variants are and , with and also being possible. The broadest Cockney variant approaches . There's also a variant that is used only by women, namely .