Disappearing Diphthongs ❗️
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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