#ā# is regularly _a_, are b 229; before two consonants, gast b 231; length is indicated by doubling in aa, b 162, b 234: man b 8 is *#mān#. _ea_ for #ā# appears in eanes b 34, b 189, easkin b 181, easki b 78, easkeð b 118, b 203, wreaðfule 32, 63, coming from forms in #ǣ#. #ā# is _o_ in cop b 142 (#cōp#), _e_ in se b 67 &c., but swa 73. #ǣ{1}# is, as a rule (41 times), _ea_, ageasten 58, arearen b 159, asneasen 69, eani 8; before two consonants, eauer 54 &c., leafdi b 235, wreaððe b 153, b 166, but _e_ in þer b 155, and before two consonants in flesch b 26, flesches b 91, fleschlich b 78, fleschliche b 75, leste b 37, b 54 (beside leasse 61 (4), leaste b 188), and _a_ before two consonants in attri 12, attreð b 80 (? analogy of #āttor#). #ǣnig# is mostly ei 8 (possibly shortening of eiðer,--Holthausen); #ǣlc# is euch 34 &c. #ǣ{2}# is _e_ (32 times), dreden b 196, her b 141, neddre 31, wepmen b 22, but _eo_ in leote b 131, b 19, feorle 100. _ea_ appears only in ileanet 16, read b 13, b 37, reade b 2 (but reden b 188, redeð b 223, b 224, b 228, ired b 235): þear 41 is probably a scribal error for þer, but comp. þiar 39/165. The difference in the representation of #ǣ{1}#, as _ea_, rarely _e_, and #ǣ{2}#, as _e_, rarely _ea_, is also found in the Katherine group, and is Anglian (Stodte, p. 31). #ē# is always _e_; #ī#, _i_, but wummon b 21 (5) after #w#; #ō# is _o_; #ū#, _u_; #ȳ# is regularly _u_, fur b 160, hudest b 57; before two consonants, cuððe b 144, fulðe b 113, but _i_ in schriden b 85, beside schruden 90.