Vowels PRICE
The BCDP evidence suggests that WM PRICE is typically  but approaches  in more formal registers.

Wells (1982: 358, 363) notes that the Midlands rang from most typical  to . PRICE-CHOICE merger may be possible because the  opposition is apparently variably neutralizable, often as .

Hughes and Trudgill (1996: 55) have WM , while Chinn and Thorne (2001: 22) maintain that speakers with broad Bm accents barely differentiate the vowel sounds in five and noise. Mathisen (1999: 109) claims  occurs “occasional[ly]”
in Sandwell, allowing potential merger with CHOICE, while Painter (1963: 30–31) has BC , realized as , with sporadic unstressed . 
Heath (1980: 87) has Cannock .