Which accents have the vowel in “ride” stays as one sound — PRICE monophthong?

Southern Appalachian English, Texas English, African American English, New Orleans English.

Which accents have the vowel in “ride” glides from one sound to another?

Modern RP / Standard Southern British, Bristol / Southwest English, West Country English, London / Estuary English, Multicultural London English, Birmingham / West Midlands English, Scouse / Liverpool English, Mancunian English, South Yorkshire English, West Yorkshire English, Geordie / Tyneside English, Central Scottish English, Highland Scottish English, South Wales English, Northern Irish English, Cork English, East Irish English, Southern Appalachian English, New York City English, California English, Texas English, Boston / Eastern New England English, Chicago / Inland North English, Newfoundland English, Jamaican English / Patwa continuum, Bajan English, Queensland Australian English, New Zealand English, Toronto Canadian English, Johannesburg South African English, Delhi Indian English, Nigerian English, Kenyan English, Pakistani English, Philippine English, Singapore English, Hong Kong English, Melbourne / Southern Australian English, Ghanaian English, Trinidadian English, Malaysian English, Midland American English, Hawaiian English, Philadelphia English, New Orleans English, Vancouver / Western Canadian English, Perth / Western Australian English, Chennai / South Indian English, Liberian English, Sri Lankan English, Spanish-accented English, French-accented English, German-accented English, Italian-accented English, Russian-accented English, Brazilian Portuguese-accented English, Japanese-accented English, Mandarin-accented English.

Which accents have the “ride” vowel is variably monophthongal?

Texas English, New Orleans English.

Pronunciation

Does “Ride” Stay on One Sound? Southern PRICE

Most accents of English travel from “ah” into “ee” in “ride” and “time”. In the American South and in African American English the vowel often stays on the first sound — “rahde” — which is the feature people hear as a drawl even when they cannot name it.

The question, as everyone in the survey sees it

Does the vowel in “ride” and “time” stay as one sound, or move from one sound to another?
A Southern “ride” can stay on “rah”; most other accents travel from “ah” into “ee”.

One steady sound
It moves — two sounds in one vowel
It varies
I cannot tell

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Which accents do what

Each accent profile in the survey has an expected answer to this question. Where a profile allows more than one answer, the region genuinely varies.

One steady sound

In these profiles, the vowel in “ride” stays as one sound — PRICE monophthong.

It moves — two sounds in one vowel

In these profiles, the vowel in “ride” glides from one sound to another.

It varies

In these profiles, the “ride” vowel is variably monophthongal.

Why this question is in the survey

Pronunciation questions carry more weight in the scoring than vocabulary questions do, because they are much harder to change deliberately. People move house and pick up new words; the vowel system learned in childhood tends to stay. Every answer is stored with a coarse map cell for the town you grew up in, and a region is coloured in once at least five people there have answered.

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