The diphthongs

GOAT

There is a tendency among some Cultivated speakers not to round the onset of this diphthong, so that a Cultivated realization ranges around [εʊ] or [œʊ]. The onset is always rounded in General varieties, usually mid-low; but the offglide is more central, sometimes unrounded, and there is once again a tendency to monophthongise. Thus, ‘normal’ General pronunciations of GOAT would be  or [œ:]. In Broad, the onset is much further back, and unrounded: [Λʊ].