Consonants /j/

The northern zone demonstrates total yod-dropping (Wells 1982). That is, earlier /j/ has gone missing before  not only after /r/, as in rule, as in all accents of English; and not only after /l, s, n, t, d, θ/, as in lute, sue, news, tune, duke, enthuse, as in many accents of English; but after all consonants. Pronunciations without /j/ are usual in items such as music, pew, beauty, few, view, cue, hew. The word ewe now begins with /j/, although this was formerly not the case, and education is now  although it was formerly . The southern part of East Anglia does not have yod-dropping but typically has  rather than  in such words.