“I was horrified to learn that a fully British colleague of mine says ‘zee’ for the letter zed and he says he always has. Is ...

We can also pronounce the letter 't' as a glottal stop - /ʔ/. Some people do this in between vowel sounds, like in 'city' /sɪʔɪ/ and 'writing' /raɪʔɪŋ/. The glottal stop, the /ʔ/ sound ...