Stressed vowel FOOT

By far the most widespread realization of FOOT words is . Very rarely, in the north, unrounded  is recorded. There are also instances of ‘hypercorrect’  in FOOT words, recorded in Parry (1999: 16) in the north-west, eastern mid Wales, and the south-west. The instances that occur in Welsh-speaking areas, in the north-west and south-west, are all of FOOT words with orthographic <u> (bull, butcher, put), and these might conceivably be spelling pronunciations. The instances else-where (eastern mid Wales, the south-west corner) might in most cases be linked with traditional  -forms in west and south-west of England accents.