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Weak Vowel Merger
There’s a gradual tendency, in an increasing number of words, for weak KIT ([ɪ]) to be interchangeable with, or replaced by, schwa [ə].
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The twentieth century RP featured four centring diphthongs, /ɪə/, /eə/, /ɔə/ and /ʊə/.
But the speakers have dropped /ɔə/ completely and increasingly replacing the others with long monophthongs, [ɪː], [ɛː], [ɵː], [oː].
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For instance, the vowel in the DRESS set is now typically pronounced closer to [ɛ] than to [e], while the vowel in the TRAP set is more accurately [a] rather than the traditional [æ].
These changes reflect an ongoing counter‑clockwise vowel shift in English.
If you consult the accompanying file, you can observe how these phonetic tendencies are reshaping the pronunciation of familiar words.
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