Other vowels

The low front vowel /æ/ found in many metropolitan varieties of English in words such as TRAP is often realized further back in the mouth as [a]. The /Λ/ of words like STRUT in metropolitan varieties is backed and close to [ɔ] . However, some varieties of English in the Turks and Caicos Islands (as well as in Bermuda) reveal the presence of [æ].

Eastern Caribbean English-derived varieties often maintain the difference between sounds in words in metropolitan dialects like the /ɔ:/ in jaw and the /a:/ in jar (which often has an r-less pronunciation in many varieties but not all, e.g. Bajan). Both sounds have typically merged into /a:/ in the Western group.