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* The consonant clusters , , and in suit, Zeus, and lute are preserved by some.
* Many Southern varieties have the bad-lad split, so that bad and lad do not rhyme.
* In most of the eastern half of England, plurals and past participle endings which are pronounced and (with the vowel of kit) in RP may be pronounced with a schwa . This can be found as far north as Wakefield

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