Phonetics and the IPA 7, Exercise 1: the GOAT set RP /əʊ/ General American /oʊ/ Scottish English [o~oʊ] In common: all three are rounded back vowels or glides towards one, used for the same words (goat, home, toe, choke, joke). Different: RP starts with a central vowel [ə]; GA starts with a mid back rounded vowel [o]; the Scottish value ranges between a pure [o] and the diphthong [oʊ]. (Whether each really has a glide is accent detail the source gives only through these symbols.)