Diphthongs

CHOICE

[ɔɪ] is very usual for this diphthong, being found in RP and (sometimes with a more tense high front end-point) in the accents of all areas other than Scotland, where [ɔe] occurs, and South-west England, which produces [oɪ]. [oɪ] can also be heard in Fashionable Dublin speech, in the English West Midlands, and in South-east England. Fully-open back onsets for the diphthongs, giving [ɒɪ/ɑɪ], are characteristic of a range of accents found in Southern and Western Ireland, in Northern and West Midland England, and in the Channel Islands. In East Anglia pronunciations across the range from [ɔi] to [ʊi] can be heard. British Creole, with [ɔɪ/ai], also exhibits [ɔε].