AI, AY (ei). Ex. _array_ (arei.); _fair_ (feir). As in modern English[22]. Note that modern English does not distinguish _pray_ from _prey_ in pronunciation; and spells _way_, from A.S. _weg_, with _ay_ instead of _ey_. AU, AW (au). Ex. _avaunt_ (avau.nt), riming with mod. E. _count_; _awe_ (au.[*e]). C, as (k), except before _e_ and _i_: as (s), before _e_ and _i_. As in modern English. Hence, we find some scribes writing _selle_ for _celle_ (sel.l[*e]), mod. E. _cell_; and conversely, the 'Ellesmere' scribe writes _celle_ for _selle_ in A 3822, causing a great difficulty; see the note to the line. CH (ch); CCH (tch). Ex. _chambre_ (chaam.br[*e]); _cacche_ (cat.ch[*e]). E short; (e). Ex. _fetheres_ (fedh.rez); the middle _e_ being dropped. It is often convenient to use the symbol '[e.]' to denote an _e_ that is lost in pronunciation. Thus we might print 'feth[e.]res' to shew the loss of the middle _e_ in this word. E final, unaccented: ([*e]). This final _e_ marks a variety of grammatical inflections, and is frequently either elided or very slightly sounded, and sometimes wholly suppressed in some common words. Ex. _swete_ (swee.t[*e]), sweet. The word _wolde_, would, is often a mere monosyllable: (wuld). E long and open, or EE; (ae) or ([`e][`e]). Ex. _heeth_ (haeth), or (h[`e][`e]th). This open _e_ came to be denoted by _ea_, and the symbol, though not the sound, is commonly preserved in mod. English; as in _heath_ (hiith). Note that this long _e_, at the end of an open syllable, is usually written with a _single_ letter, as in _clene_ (klae.n[*e]), or (kl[`e][`e].n[*e]), clean. But _cleene_ also occurs in the MSS. E long and close, or EE; (ee) or (['e]['e]). Ex. _weep_ (weep), or (w['e]['e]p). Note that this long _e_, at the end of an open syllable, is usually written with a _single_ letter, as in _swete_ (swee.t[*e]), sweet. But _sweete_ is also found in MSS. EW (ee, _followed by_ w). Ex. _newe_ (nee.w[*e]); with a tendency, probably, towards the modern sound (iuu), as in _new_ (niuu). G hard, i.e. (g), as in _gable_ (gaa.bl[*e]) or (gaa.bl), except before _e_ and _i_ in words of French origin. Thus _gilt_ (gilt), guilt, is of A.S. origin; but _gin_ (jin), a snare, is a shortened form of F. _engin_. GGE (dj[*e]). Ex. _brigge_ (bridj[*e]). GH (h), G. _ch_. Ex. _light_ (liiht). As said above, the vowel was at first short, then half-long, as probably in Chaucer, and then wholly long, when the (h) dropped out. Later, (ii) became (ei), and is now (ai). Chaucer never rimes _-ight_ with _-yt_, as in the case of _dight_, _delyt_; Rom. of the Rose, Fragment B 2555. GN (n), with long preceding vowel; as _digne_ (dii.n[*e]). As Dr. Sweet says, the F. _gn_ was perhaps sometimes pronounced as _ny_ (where the _y_ is consonantal), but in familiar conversation was a simple _n_, preceded by a long vowel or a diphthong.