Jim, if you look back you will see that I didn't offer a translation for craigie, and only said I wouldn't use it to describe a face. For the neck I'd normally use another Germanic word, hause, cf German Hals.

As for vowels, I can only remember using the long 'oo' in moo-coo before I was taught to speak 'proper'; else where I'd always use the short 'u' which now I only normally use when speaking French or German. I also nowadays usually pronounce 'film' and 'farm' with one syllable.