Vowels and diphthongs PRICE

The quality of the vowel in words of this set is often quite close to that of CHOICE in accents such as RP, although Wells (1982: 347) contends that a PRICE-CHOICE opposition is usually (but not always) maintained by Southwestern speakers. This feature is nonetheless stereotyped to the extent that pseudo-phonetic spellings like roit (right) and Vroiday (Friday) are commonly found in attempts to render West Country accents orthographically. Wakelin describes the first element of the diphthong as being heavily centralized in the eastern part of the region, but as one proceeds westward   becomes increasingly common. He also cites monophthongal pronunciations as [æ: ~ a:] for Devon (Wakelin 1986: 27–28).