6. No inflection of the adjective in the accusative singular. The phrase '_godun_ dai,' good day, in l. 1430, p. 41, contains a solitary instance of the accusative of the adjective, but it is, no doubt, a mere remnant of the older speech, just like our 'for _the n_once' (= for _then_ once), and is no proof that the writer or his readers employed it as a common inflection. The form _godun_ is a corruption of _godne_, as it is more properly written in works in the Southern dialects as late as the middle of the fourteenth century. 7. Adjectives and adverbs with the termination _-like_. The Southern form is, for adjectives, _-lich_ (sing.), _-liche_ (pl.); for adverbs _-liche_. Thus the adoption of this affix really (though at first it appears a matter of no importance) marks a _stage_ in the language when the distinction between the sing. and pl. form of adjectives was not very strictly observed, and was, moreover, a step towards our modern _-ly_, which is adjectival as well as adverbial. Even in this poem adjectives occur in _-li_, as _reuli_ = piteous, which is the earliest example I have met with. Orm employs double forms in _-like_ and _-liȝȝ_ (= _ly_?). _-ly_ has arisen not out of _-lich_ or _-liche_ (which would have become _lidge_ or _litch_), but out of some such softened form as _liȝ_. 8. The tendency to drop the initial _y_, _i_ (A.S. _ge_) of the passive participles of strong verbs. The Ormulum has two or three examples of this prefixal element, and in our poem it occurs but seldom. IV. A tendency to drop the _t_ of the second person of verbs, as _as_, hast; _beas_, beëst; _findes_, findest. Examples of this practice are very common in the Bestiary and Genesis and Exodus, but it occurs only four times in the Ormulum.[19] It was very common for the West-Midland to drop the _-e_ of 2nd person in strong verbs. See Preface to O.E. Homilies, 1st Series. V. The use of _arn_, _aren_, for _ben_ of the Midland dialect, or _beð_ of the Southern dialect.[20] VI. The employment of the adverbs _thethen_, _hethen_, _quethen_ (of Scandinavian origin),[21] instead of the Southern _thenne_ (_thennen_), thence; _henne_ (_hennen_), hence; _whanne_ (_whanene_), whence. VII. The use of _oc_, _ok_ (also, and), a form which does not occur in any specimen of a Southern, West-Midland, or Northern dialect that has come under my notice. The use of _on_, _o_, for the Southern _an_ or _a_, as _onlike_, _olike_, alike, _on-rum_, apart, _on-sunder_, asunder, is also worth noticing. VIII. The coalition of the pronoun _it_ with pronouns and verbs, as _get_ (Bestiary) = she it (_ȝhöt_ in Ormulum; cf. _þüt_ = _thu itt_, thou it); _tellet_ = tell it; _wuldet_ = would it; _ist_ = is it, is there; _wast_, was it, was there, etc. _þit_ = _þe_ + _hit_ = who it, occurs in O.E. Homilies, 2nd Series.