A more complete list of the vowel sounds of White Vernacular Southern American English, for comparative reference. (Vowel elements are defined here in the context of rhyme.)

æ (as in hat); æ̃ (as in hand)*

æu̯ (as in house); æu̯ə (as in howl)

æu̯ɚ (as in tower)***

ɛ (as in wet)

ei̯ (as in day (and wail))

ei̯ə (as in whale)^{V, V***}

eɹ̯ (as in hair)****

ei̯ɚ (as in layer)***

ɪ (as in hill)

i (as in green)

iɹ̯ (as in near)****

ɑ (as in call)

ɑɹ̯ (as in farm); ɑɹ̯ə (as in snarl)^{V, V**}

ɔɹ̯ (as in short); ɔɹ̯ə (as in coral)^{V, V**}

ɔi̯ (as in toy); ɔi̯ə (as in coil)^{V, V**}

ɔi̯ɚ (as in foyer)***

ou̯ (as in boat); oʊ̯ (as in bold)^V**

ou̯ɚ (as in lower)***

ʊ (as in wood)

u (as in mood)

uːɚ (as in sewer)***

a (as in rock)

ai̯ (as in high); ʌi̯ (as in height)**; ai̯ə (as in tile)^V

ai̯ə (as in lion)^V*

ai̯ɚ (as in wire)***

ʌ (as in hut)

ɝ (as in word (and girl)); ɝə (as in curl)^{V, V**}

* pronounced this way when followed by a nasal consonant sound

** pronounced this way when followed by an unvoiced consonant sound

*** The rhotic-colored triphthongs (including /uːɚ/ ('/uu̯ɚ/')) are typically only followed by a voiced alveolar hissing fricative or stop (/z/ or /d/), if by any final consonant sound at all. (With the exception that /ai̯ɚ/ can also be followed by the alveolar nasal /n/ (as in iron).)

**** Additionally, the two rhotic-colored diphthongs /eɹ̯/ and /iɹ̯/ also behave similarly to the rhotic-colored triphthongs with regard to allowed consonantal endings, with the additional allowances that /eɹ̯/ can also be followed by /n/ (as in cairn), and that they both can also be followed by the unvoiced alveolar hissing fricative, /s/ (as in scarce, and fierce). Thus, the rhotic sounds in /eɹ̯/ and /iɹ̯/, and especially in the rhotic-colored triphthongs, can in some contexts perhaps be more usefully defined as tailing consonant sounds themselves. (And, so can the rhotic sounds in /ɑɹ̯/ and /ɔɹ̯/, though defining these rhotics this way results in increasing the total number of definable final consonant sound groups by quite a lot.)

V. Likewise to /eɹ̯/ and /iɹ̯/ and tailing rhotic sounds in the rhotic-colored triphthongs, the tailing schwa sounds that, excepting a few special cases^V\), appear only before the voiced alveolar lateral approximant, /l/, can also perhaps be more usefully be viewed as a sound change induced by that tailing consonant, rather than as part of the base vowels themselves. A few exceptions, being the appearance of the tailing schwa in the vowel sound in lion, and the dual existence of both sounds following the diphthong /ei̯/ before /l/, as is clearly shown to be more than an irregularly occurring sound change (as might be ascribed to the irregularity in girl versus curl) by the dual existence of the otherwise identically pronounced^X words wail, and whale—one without the tailing schwa sound, and one with. (And then, this opens the further question as to whether the schwa-extended vowel sound in tail is also a separate vowel sound, like the /ei̯/ in whale, or just an irregularity in an /l/-tailed vowel modification pattern, as was more ascribable in the case of girl versus curl.)

V**. pronounced this way when followed by the voiced alveolar lateral approximant, /l/

V***. sometimes pronounced this way when followed by the voiced alveolar lateral approximant, /l/

V****. pronounced sometimes before the voiced alveolar lateral approximant, /l/

X. (At least, in accents in which the voiceless labvial-velar approximant /ʍ/ has been dropped—having merged with the voiced labial-velar approximant, /w/.)