Vowel length FACE/GOAT

The vowels of these sets tend to be monophthongs, though some Scottish Standard English speakers, such as the rather unusual-sounding Scottish-English-speaking BBC Scotland newscasters, will sometimes use diphthongs similar to Southern English English (Macafee 1983: 35). The Scots monophthongs in MATE/BAIT and COAT/ COT can be realized as closer vowels. Apart from phonetic breaking before /r/ (and sometimes /n, l/) in working-class speakers in the 1997 Glasgow corpus, there was very little evidence for a diphthongal realization of these vowels in any speakers.