nonstandard in England but now also occurs by educated RP-speakers. (The after is not normally dropped in RP in medial positions, however: compare pursuit .) In General American, yod-dropping is found not only in the above environments but also after , and , for example tune , dew , new The lack of yod-dropping in those contexts has occasionally been held to be a shibboleth distinguishing Canadians from Americans. However, in a survey conducted in the Golden Horseshoe area of Southern Ontario in 1994, over 80% of respondents under the age of 40 pronounced student and news without yod. General American thus undergoes yod-dropping after all alveolar consonants. A few accents of American English, such as working-class Southern American English, however, preserve the distinction in pairs like do/dew because like in the Welsh English dialects discussed above, they retain a diphthong in words in which RP has : , , etc. However, in words like annual, menu, volume, Matthew, continue, etc., with a syllable break before the , there is no yod-dropping. The same applies accordingly to British and other accents; the yod is often dropped after initial , for example, but it is not dropped in words like volume or value. (British speakers omit the in figure, but most Americans retain it.) Additionally, there is no in British pronunciations of coupon and Pulitzer, and respectively, but many, if not most, American speakers keep the yod, realizing them as and , although Pulitzer with the pew sound is widely incorrect. Uniquely, in New Zealand and to some extent Australian English, debut is mainly pronounced without the yod as . Yod-dropping after , , and was also a traditional feature of Cockney speech, which continues to be the case after , but now, after and , yod-coalescence is now more common. Some East Anglian accents such as Norfolk dialect extend yod-dropping not only to the position after , or but also to the position after nonalveolar consonants as well: pairs like beauty/booty, mute/moot, cute/coot can then be homophonous. A well-known series of British television advertisements beginning in the 1980s featured Bernard Matthews, who was from Norfolk and described his turkeys as "bootiful" (for beautiful). Such accents pronounce a in words like "use", "unit", etc. only if there is no consonant before the . Yod-coalescence Yod-coalescence is a process that fuses the clusters into the sibilants respectively (for the meanings of those