#Phonology:# Oral #a# is _a_; #a# before nasals and lengthening groups, _o_, but can 231, manyes, 295, fremannes, 299: me, _indef. pron._ < #man# is due to loss of stress: þanne, þane, þan, hwanne are usual, but þenne 72, 91, hwenne 254. #æ# is mostly _a_, as always in after, at, fader, hwat, war 16, but _e_ in eþelyng 44, gedelyng 214, gled 209, glednesse 30, gres 81, heuedest 187, queþ 19, &c., þet 154 (once), þes 63 (once), wes 4 and always; Ealured 6 occurs beside Alured 12, &c. #e# and #e# before lengthening groups is _e_, but ny 124 < #ne#: imulten 276 represents #myltan#. #i# is _i_, often written _y_, mostly in conjunction with _n_, but wule 91, 254, 286 (beside wile 154, wille 142), nule 69, after _w_, nele 254, OE. #nele#. #o# is _o_, but #on# is weakened to a 112, 200; #ðone# is þane 247, 248, þene 114, 116, 198 (LWS. #ðane#, #ðæne#). #œ# is represented in seorewe 151, 233, serewe 156. #u# is _u_, but bycome 138, where _o_ is associated with _m_. #y# is _u_: munye 25 is OE. #mynian#; vordrye 227, OE. #fyrþrian#, is a French spelling; king, kyng, dryhten with _y_ for _i_ are exceptions as usual; steorne 207 is corrupt. #ā# is _o_; _a_ remains in bihat 245, mayþenes 130, madmes 133, 276. #ǣ{1}# is _e_: exceptions are vyches 276, euer uyches 54, which descend from #ylc#, agoþ 146, ouergoþ 143, without umlaut: nenne 296 is #nænne#. #ǣ{2}# is also _e_, but þar 4 &c., always. #ē# is _e_, but doþ 81. #ī# is _i_, often written _y_, but me 140 (#mīn#) is due to loss of stress. #ō# is _o_, but reowe 96 (#rōwan#), a French spelling. #ū# is _u_: for it _w_ is written in hw 11, 22, 42. #ȳ# is _u_ in byhud 163, cuþe 254, cuþeþ 170, lutel 215, 277, 312, luþre 257, but litel 281; #þȳ# has _i_ in forþi 304, _e_ in þe 82.