Vowels happY

The BCDP data suggest that this is typically tense and with diphthongization, i.e. . Wells (1982: 362) notes [i:] in the peripheral North (including Birmingham), and Hughes and Trudgill (1996: 55) also note WM [i:]. However, Painter (1963: 30–31) has BC , realized as , with sporadic unstressed ; similarly, Chinn and Thorne (2001: 21) maintain that Bm speakers’ realization here is typically “close to ‘ay’” (), e.g. in pretty, family, money, gulley.