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Does any other Germanic language (including English) feature stød?
No. Stød is not the same as creaky voice. The former distinguishes words in Danish and is often realized as creaky voice. The latter does not have a phonemic function in other Germanic languages, which means that any syllable in any word can be pronounced with or without creaky voice without a change of meaning. The closest thing to stød in English is the distinction between the words "Ben" and "bent" as pronounced by a Londoner in casual speech, where the final /t/ in the second word is realized as a glottal stop.