Other words pronounced with a monophthong include: take and made.
For example, the citation form of the word "our" is, but in speech it is often pronounced as or even as a monophthong.
In a recent trend, a fronted monophthong is common amongst young women.
In some dialects, the diphthong may be reduced to the long monophthong.
The use of the monophthong "is still a vigorous feature of working-class speech, and in particular working-class boys," which has remained stable over the last 30 years.
This suggests that the monophthong represents the community norm, despite the fact that it is a relic form, which may in fact be somewhat stigmatized with certain groups of speakers.
This will allow us to determine which of these contextual factors contribute statistically significant effects to the appearance of the monophthong when both are considered simultaneously.
Turner (1970) observed that the head monophthong was becoming diphthongal.
