is reduced to _l_ in leane 58, leor 58, 231, lust 261, lustnið 61, anlepi 313, sunderlepes 280, #hn# to _n_ in nesche 162, 167, #hr# to _r_ in remunge 99. Initial #hw# is usually preserved, hwen 68, hwer 17, hwet 60. _h_ is added in unwhiht 151, doubled in bituhhen 168, bituhhe 133, 169. (2) =Of R.= The principal divergences from B are noted. #a# before nasal: unþeonkes 42 (comp. ‘feondeð,’ SM 10/7). #æ#: the spelling _ea_ for _e_ is used only in smeale 70, wearliche 4, otherwise _e_ occurs, except in latere 103, neose 96, 112 (#nosu#): similarly _ea_ for umlaut #e# is absent in best 332, formelte 104, smel 275, spelien 303. #o#: grot 93. #u#: com 60 (#cwōm#), cumeð 69, 138. #y# is regularly _u_, as in B. #ā#: #swā# stressed and unstressed is so, but once swa 234; eskeð 75, 215, eskest 68. The representation of #ǣ{1}# is divided between _ea_ and _e_, each 28 times: #ǣ{2}# is _e_ 50 times (lete 40); the exceptions are hear 132, heale 242, hileanet 202, offearen 56 (4), offeared 54, 211, reade 142, reades 296, rodien 81 (reoden T). #ī#: bliðeliche 351. #ea# (breaking): hard 116 (7), harm 117, herdes 183, þearf 171, weldent 226. #eo#: hercni 349, darc 130. The _u_-, _å_-umlaut of #a# is _e_ in gledeð 310, gledien 223, 270, gledunge 308, 310, 312, medeð 99 (for meðen), neuele 98, igledet 214, and is wanting in fareð 18, hatel 128, hateð 109, hatieð 111. _å_-umlaut of #e#: to speokene 347. _u_-, _å_-umlaut of #i#: seððen 213, unwitnesse 179. #eo# after #ġ#: ȝuheðe 383. #ēa#: deð 171, dedlich 58, adie 269, eðsene 240, greạt 70. #īe#: fleme 343. #ēo#: þeosternesse 86, þreohad 372. #a# + #g#: dreien 206. #æ# + #g#: feirlec 272. #i# + #ht#: unwiht 151. #ē# + #g#: tweien 342. #ō# + #h#: þohtes 360. #eo# + #g#: tintreon 264. #r#: wrenches 5. #n#: in 108, 319, on 29. #f#: under fon 57. #t#: et 98. #d# final is seldom altered to _t_, dred 50, dureward 39, hard 165, hideward 139, lond 130, toward 81, 127, but heauet 59: other spellings are onswereð 66, 281, schenlac 124, gled 108, middel 174. Initial #þ# is often unaltered after final _t_, þu 79, þrof 331 (but it is lost in ant e 372), so final #þ# in limpeð 154. Normal #þ# appears in bliðeliche 248, makieð 255, makeð 39, oðer 19, soð 293, swiðe 208; for #þ#, _d_ in beod 15. #s#: gastes 30. #c#: ecnesse 108. #g#: ȝef 12, iȝarcket 339, biȝeoten 316 (but bigoten 259), agulteð 48, guldene 170, strencðe 153 (5), strencðen 164, strenðe 343. #h#: unwiht 151, hearen 98, her 94, hileanet 202, hearneð 135, hure 144, er 58, is 28, wilinde 135.