#ea# + #h# occurs in wexynde 112, 113, iauhteþ 171 (#geeahtian#), probably a miswriting of iachteþ in the scribe’s exemplar (T has hachte for #æht#, nocht, &c.): #eo# + #h# in bryht 211, rihtwis 34, mixe 276 (#meox#), vouh 129 is #feoh#; in case it corresponds to #fēo#, dative; Skeat and Borgström read veoh. #ēa# + #h# gives þeih 88 (9), þey 79. #ā# + #w# is _ow_ in mowe 53, 60, sowen 59, isowen 80, _au_ in saule 23, _ou_ in nouht 35 &c. and _ey_ in iseye 186 (#gesāwe#): #ēa# + #w# is _ew_ in fewe 301, þewes 195, 312, vnþewes 262, _eu_ in glev 256, vnþev 198, _eaw_ in gleaw 30: #ēo# + #w# is _eow_ in greowe 81, reowe 330, treowe 202, _ew_ in rewe 71: the _pron._ #ēow# is ou 21, eu 142, #ēower# ower 141, eure 20, 23. The acute accent is used twenty-one times over long vowels, in ten cases over _e_ representing #ǣ#: séé 95, 132 is furnished with two, as often in MS. O of Layamon, comp. 95/2. In v́uel 217 it serves to distinguish the vowel. The consonants show little divergence from OE. use. For #w#, _u_ is written in uexynde 112, for #u#, _w_ in hw 22, 42: #wur# is _wr_ in wrþsipes 22, wrþie 36, 286, wrþe 124: iwrche 83 is OE. #gewyrcan#, wrt 112 is #wyrt#. OE. #swa# is regularly so, but once swo 99, influenced by the initial _sw_ of the following word. #l# is lost in vyches 276, eueruyches 54 and other pronominal words of similar formation: #n# is dropped in euelyche 49, owe 111, wyndrunke 184; uppe _prep._ 132 occurs beside vpen 123. #f# between vowels is commonly _v, u_, but hafst 133, oferhoweþ 323, wife 185 where it is probably voiced; initially it is largely maintained, but it is _v, u_ in urouer 37, velde 112, vouh 129, forvare 147, 260, vere 148, vordrye 227, vayre 245, 6, avynde 291, vale 300, in all these cases before a vowel. #d# is _t_ in huntseuenti 79; schaltu 168 has _t_ for #þ# after a dental: #þ# is represented by _d_ in vordrye 227; madmes 138 answers to LWS. #mādm#: #t# is omitted in lest 316. #c# + #s# is represented by _x_ in arixlye 329. #hw# is generally preserved, but wile 149: in initial combinations with other consonants #h# is lost: swyhc 159 is written for swych, iscohte 303 for ischote. The prefix #ge# is regularly _i_: _k_ is often used for #c#; #cw# is _qu_; #č# is _ch_, as chireche 57, cheorl 58, &c. #sc# is generally _sch_, but scolde 87, wrþsipes 22: #ġ# is regularly _y_. In syllables of minor stress the vowels have mostly been levelled to _e_, as in egleche, sadelbowe, sikerliche, vppen, &c. An _e_, generally slurred in scansion, is inserted in clerek, euere, seorewe, arewe, erewe, foleweþ, pouere.