#Phonology:# (1) =of A.= Oral #a# is _a_, calices b 17, cat b 2; #a# before nasals and lengthening groups is _o_, dronc 21, gomen 83, brondes b 161, wombe, 97; þen, þenne, hwen, hwenne, selthwenne b 195 are the usual forms, but once hwon b 116: #and# is ant 26 &c., #man#, indefinite, me 16. #æ# is usually _e_, bres 103, ed b 121, efter b 12, gedereð 87 (#gæderian#), hetter b 28, oðerhwet b 177, neppes 94, þet b 126, wes b 3, wicchecreftes 7, esken 79, 85 (#æsce#), weschen b 145, vesscheð b 112 (#wæscan#), but _ea_, an EME. writing for #æ# in bearuot b 39, bleasie b 162 (#blæse#, _sb._), feader b 173, b 231, feaste b 42 (3), gleadliche b 186, measse b 83, readliche b 94, noðeleater b 169, weater b 94, inohreaðe 43 (#hræþe#), and _a_ in awakenet 24, awakenið b 61, b 91 (#awacenian#), blac b 23, warliche b 148 (flexion forms), cappen b 45: habbe 25 &c., nabben b 130 descend from LWS. forms in #a#: quoð b 76 (#cwæþ#) is due to loss of stress. #e# is regularly _e_, bedde b 25, bereð 64 (but beore b 136), spekeð b 57 (but speoke b 132); before lengthening groups, ende 100, englene 76. Between #w--f#, #e# is rounded to _eo_ in tweolue b 112; before a palatal it is raised to _i_ in rikenin 25, rikeneres 82: stude b 171, sullen b 12, 14, swuch b 18 are due to OE. forms in #y#. #i# is regularly _i_, bidde b 237, binimeð b 221 (but neome b 34 &c.); before lengthening groups, blod binde b 69 (#binde#), bringen 49, child 22, but _u_ in wule 72 and other forms of #willan#, nute b 130 (#nyte#). #o# is normally _o_, biuoren 57, hosen b 39, word 65, but _a_ in an(an) b 87; nalde 90, walden 42, iwraht b 24 are Anglian. #u# is _u_, cume b 90, cuppe 103, sunderliche 24, wunder b 63, but _i_ in kimeð 94, b 200 (#cymeð#; Bülbring, Ablaut, 74). #y# is _u_, brune b 160, sundreð b 161, sungið b 191, but _i_ in pilche clut 68: #mycel# is muchel b 91, muche 82; sturne b 195 represents #styrne#.