Western New England English
The English of Western New England in fact shows many sharp differences throughout rather than one uniform accent. In 2001, Charles Boberg, discussing that Western New England English was a likely direct influence on the Inland Northern English of the Great Lakes region, still identified as many as four or five English sub-regional accents within Western New England itself, based on data from the late 1990s:
Phonological history of English high back vowels
This has remained as such in some Welsh, northern English, and American accents, so that, in a variety of Welsh English, "threw" is distinct from "through" . In the majority of accents, however, the falling diphthong turned into a rising diphthong, which became the sequence . This change had taken place in London by the end of the 17th century. Depending on the preceding consonant and on the dialect, this either remained as or developed into by the processes of yod-dropping or yod-coalescence. Hence the present-day standard English pronunciations of "duke" (or ), "new" , "few" and "rude" .