Re: YAEPT after all: English diphthongs

I was going to suggest Geordie - and possibly some Northern Irish too?

  P.

Michael Poxon <mike@...> wrote:
  Yes, these variations certainly occur in Geordie dialect (Newcastle area) so
/gre@t/, /bo@t/ and so on, though in practice, any final unvoiced stop tends
to be replaced by the glottal stop.
Mike
>
> I think a great many English and Scottish dialects have monophthongs in
> these words. Irish, too, I suppose. But I have heard re- diphthongising
> variants that sound something like [grE{t] and [bO@t]. I believe I've
> heard [griEt] as well. Where do we locate those? If I'm not dreaming
> them?
>

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