[44] However, there is a pronunciation of are, intermediate between the emphatic [ɑː] and the unstressed [ə], which may be described as short [ɑ]. The a in the unstressed prefix trans-, and the second a of advantageous also have the sound of [ɑ] sometimes.
[45] Especially when it is final.
[46] Many cultivated people pronounce girl as [gɛəl]; but [gəːl] is to be preferred. Clerk, sergeant have [ɑː], not [əː]; also Derby, Berkshire, Hertfordshire.
[47] It is heard on the stage and in public speaking generally; in ordinary conversation it suggests the speech of a foreigner, especially if the [ɑ] element of the diphthong is lengthened.
[48] The first part is still more open in a common vulgar pronunciation of tea, please.
[49] For [ɔː] see the diagram on p. [125].
[50] Exceptions are borrow, etc., work, attorney, etc.
[51] To pronounce this [ə] distinctly in such words as law, saw is a mistake.
[52] It is absurd to speak of fort and caught, morn and dawn as "cockney" rimes; they are perfectly good rimes in standard English; and a southern Englishman only shows ignorance by speaking of them as bad. Considering, however, that standard English is by no means universal, the would-be poet is advised to avoid these rimes.