The Cumberland dialect so written, however, had a remarkably ugly and uncouth appearance when printed, and the remonstrances of my present provincial publisher induced me to abandon the H orthography, and endeavour to secure the proper pronunciations by means of accent marks, spelling the words instanced above _leàm_, _neàm_, _cūnning_, _cūm_, et similia similiter. The broad O and Oa are in our Cumberland speech altered into _eà_, with the sound of _yah_, home becoming _heàm_, broad _breàd_, etc. There are exceptions to this as to most other rules, for lane is rendered as _lwoan_ or _lonnin’_, choke as _chowk_, croak as _crowk_, road as _rwoad_, and more as _mair_, while shore has its ordinary sound. Almost in reversal of these changes the broad A as in ball, a dance, Al, as in walk, Aw, as in awful, are sounded like the broad O or Oa, thus _boall_, _woak_, _oaful_, etc.; but the L is preserved in _oala’s_, for always, scalp is pronounced _scowpe_, and ball, a plaything, is _bo’_, all, _oa’_, call, _co’_, hall, _ho’_, etc., etc. Ea gets the pronunciation properly given to it in veal and mead; so that bread is _breed_, head, _heed_, dead, _deed_, etc., etc.; but when this diphthong precedes R, as in bear, wear, etc., it becomes dissyllabic like fear, as commonly pronounced, and mare too becomes _mee-ar_. Ei becomes _ay_, either and neither becoming _ayder_ and _nayder_, sometimes _owder_ and _nowder_. The broad I in bite, write, etc., the Cumbrians deepen almost as is done by well educated people in the southern counties, with notable exceptions however, the first personal pronoun being made Ah; Igh, shortened and gutturalized by the Scotch, being sounded like _Ee_, night being _neet_, light, _leet_, etc., and find and bind pronounced like wind, viz.—_finnd_, _binnd_. The double O is generally pronounced _eù_, or more exactly _yuh_ shortly, fool being _feùl_, school, _scheùl_, etc., in one short syllable. Do and too are often pronounced according to this rule, but almost equally often are made into _dee_ and _tee_, while the preposition to is for the most part changed into _till_ or _tull_. With Ou and Ow Cumberland speakers are somewhat capricious, round being made _roond_, town, _toon_, etc., but found and bound become _fūnd_ and _būnd_, ought, _owte_, nought, _nowte_, etc. O with the sound of the short U is treated in a very arbitrary manner—one being called _yan_, none, _nin_, and oven, _yubben_. Qu is generally softened into _wh_, aspirated distinctly—quick being pronounced w_hick_, and quite, _white_, and Quaker, with old people, is _Whaker_. Y is sometimes converted into G, as in _garth_ for yard, _garn_ for yarn; and again that habit is sometimes reversed, as in _yatt_ for gate.