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[?:] in words such as bord (bird) forst (first) throughout Northumberland and north Durham. This is a result of the Northumbrian burr modifying adjacent vowels.
*[I] in words such as "blinnd" (blind) and "finnd" (find).
*Occurring throughout much of north & west Northumberland, the GOAT vowel in words like "phone" and "tone" moves closer to [?:], so "phone" would be pronounced the same as the word "fern". Amongst those with stronger accents, a similar vowel can be found in the LOT vowel, so "cod" would be pronounced with a short oe

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