Vowel length LOT/CLOTH/THOUGHT

Again, Scottish Standard English usually shows one vowel here, transcribed , but some speakers may have a distinction between LOT and THOUGHT, with again a slightly different lexical incidence such that e.g. lorry would select  rather than expected English English  (Abercrombie 1979: 76). Abercrombie observes that an  contrast assumes an  contrast. In Urban Scots COT and CAUGHT are distinct but with different realizations, [o] and respectively (Johnston 1997: 490).