Vowels CHOICE

As noted above, PRICE-CHOICE confusion may occur in the WM dialect due to merger under . However, there is also written evidence for PRICE-CHOICE confusion as , in Bm <chice> choice, <nineter> ‘mischievous or disobedient boy’ (according to Chinn and Thorne [2001: 126] apparently from anointer, cf. <nineted> anointed (by the devil?); also BC <biled> boiled, <spile(‘t)> spoil(t).

Heath (1980: 87) has Cannock .