Now that the PRICE vowel (/aɪ/ [Gimson], ɑj [Lindsey]), when smoothed as in words like ‘child’, is realized as [ɑː], which was [iː] centuries ago, it has travelled all the way around the vowel trapezium and reached the opposite side.
Now that the PRICE vowel (/aɪ/ [Gimson], ɑj [Lindsey]), when smoothed as in words like ‘child’, is realized as [ɑː], which was [iː] centuries ago, it has travelled all the way around the vowel trapezium and reached the opposite side.