#Phonology:# (1) =of B.= The following should be compared with the account of the MS. A of the Ancrene Wisse on pp. 357-62; explanations of abnormal forms offered there are not repeated here. Oral #a# is _a_, habben 41, makid 39; #a# before nasals and lengthening groups is _o_, from 25, lonc 58, fondin 224, inȝonge 32; þen, þenne, hwen, hwenne are the usual forms, but þeonne 138 by analogy of heonne: #and# is ant 9, #man# indefinite is me 45, possibly mon 25. #æ# is mostly _e_, ed 98, gledd 208, but _ea_ in feader 116 (4 times), forbearneð 103 (#forbærnan#), glead 201 (3), gleadschipes 306, 307, leatere 103, nease 96, 112 (#næs-#), reaðliche 21, smeale 70, wearliche 4, weattres 100, and _a_ in blac 58, 110, war 195, 332, warliche 39, 178, warre 142, warschipes 42 &c., and habbe 61, 112, 220. #e# is _e_, bereð 70, herien 320, spekeð 8; before lengthening groups, ende 106, engles 239, but rikenin 86, stude 46 (3), hwuch 6 &c., swuch 93 (4). Umlaut #e# is _ea_ in beast 332 (but best 64), formealte 104 (Anglian #mæltan#), smeal 275, spealie 303: from *#swolgian# descend forswolheð 91, forswolhe 152. #i# is regularly _i_, blisse 136, ȝimmes 245, but wiit 200; before lengthening groups, binden 71, bringe 113, but _u_ in wule 42 (7), wulleð 289: in welcume 227, an early instance of this spelling, the adverb #wel# has been substituted for the original #wil#. #o# is _o_, bodi 323, bigotten 316; before lengthening groups, bold 129, word 73, but _a_ in nalde 7, walde 6 (3), wrahtte 74 (descended from an older form with #a#): dehtren 202 is an umlaut plural: greot 93 for grot RT (#grot#, particle) is due to confusion with #grēot#, grit. #u# is regularly _u_, cume 7, stunde 207, tungen 114, once _o_ in comme 60, and _i_ in kimeð 69, 138. #y# is _u_, arudden 120 (*#āryddan#), brune 83, ȝuldene 170, sunderlepes 280; #mycel# is muchel 11, muche 105.