#Phonology:# (1) =of C.= Oral #a# is _a_, fare 176, habben 189, but færeð 43, færen 45, hæfuest 50; uerden 48 is from #fēran#. #a# before nasals is normally _o_, comp 120, moni 93 (5 times), but whanene 31, whænnenen 27, þenne 182, muni 113; #a# before lengthening groups is _o_, hond 201, imong 141, but and 9 &c., andswerden 11 (6), answarede 51 (4), angles 34. #æ# is _a_ (48), _e_ (20), _æ_ (16), after 179, æfter 186, bad 241, bed 298, hafde 212 (7), hæfde 233 (3), hehde (for hefde) 69, wes 8 (5), wæs 78, nes 104 (3), heleðes 248, sætterdæi 75. #e# is normally _e_, bereð 44, sellic 267 (often elsewhere seollic), speken 12; before lengthening groups, ende, uelde 211, hende 273; but _æ_ is common, spækeð 159, ænde 34, 109, fæld 209, hændest 95, hændeliche 99; Hængest 89 (8) is the common form; _a_ occurs in fareð 276 (#ferian#), ualde 203, þa 15, 39, 68, _u_ in sugge 52, suggeð 167; _eo_ in heoreð 58 (if from #herian#): #bærnan# gives berneð 108, #forbærnan#, forbærnen 165, #ærnan#, ærneð 108, #mengan#, mæingde 292, beside mengde C 15530 (Morsbach, § 107, anm. 3). #i# is _i_, blisse 146, wille 25, but _u_ in nulle 191, nuste 264, us 62, wulle 25, and the pres. forms of #willan#; before lengthening groups _i_, child 44, þinge 61. #o# is _o_, folc 36, hope 58, but durste 137, dursten 158; #on# is mostly an or o, once æn 211; before lengthening groups _o_, bord 215, wolde 20 (4), wolden 19, 192, but walden 12, 42. #u# is _u_, burh 173, cumen 137, iwune 117, but ilomp 122, sonedæi 75; before lengthening groups _u_, funde 298, murnede 293. #y# is normally _u_, cume 118, wunne 188, but kime 263, kineborne 168, kineliche 173, kinelond 56, 192; before lengthening groups _u_, guldene 257, vmbe 36: king 139 is the regular form, but kenge 94. #ā# is regularly _a_, hali 66, ihaten 34, but _æ_ in bræd 218, bræ[d]ne 209, mære 42, særi 103; before two consonants _a_, hatte 32, ladlic 294, madmes 134, but hæhte 59 (7). #ǣ{1}# is _æ_, bilæfuen 24, hæðene 8 (3), sæ 2, spræde 210, or _e_, bitechen 191, breden 250, stenene 222, but _a_ in bitache 173, haðene 295 (possibly Scandinavian), _ea_ in leare 150; before two consonants _æ_, ælche 129, æuer 44, læfdi 74, lædden 259, næuere 176, or _a_, alc 51, alchen 280, auere 7, nauere 23, vnwraste 80, wraððe 150, but _e_ in arerde 223, elchen 21. #ǣ{2}# is _æ_, æten 251, dæde 197, þræd 218, or _e_, deden 96, vnimete 254, but _eo_ in weore 8, weoren 2 (9), neoren 138, and _a_ in mare 223; before two consonants, þærfore 175, setten 250. #ē# is _e_, greten 144, ueden 190, but heo 73, þæ 63, 231; before two consonants, imetten 18, lette 283, but igrætten 18 (_r. w._ imetten), iuædde 100. #ī# is _i_, bliðe 24, 116, swiðe 2, fiftene 36, but bluðeliche 282, swuðe 129. #ō# is _o_, com 113, godne 49, most 110, but neoðeles 83. #ū# is _u_, bute 176, runen 148, 159, but ronenen 156. #ȳ# is _u_, biclused 177, cudðe 98, iscrudde 100, but forþi 48, 66, þa 8, 184.