This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ... smoke: luke 4727; dom: bughsom 49; bousom: come (inf.) 85; redempcyoune: devocyone, 7252; resoune: doune 7229; dongeoune: doune 7214; stature: pore 8257; pruves: moves 7708; don: parson 3980; doun: parsoun 4958; dom: come (inf.) 358, 4732, 4820, 4857, 4924, 5029, 5089, 5120, 5164, 5172, 7188, 7778; boke: smoke 7100, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ... smoke: luke 4727; dom: bughsom 49; bousom: come (inf.) 85; redempcyoune: devocyone, 7252; resoune: doune 7229; dongeoune: doune 7214; stature: pore 8257; pruves: moves 7708; don: parson 3980; doun: parsoun 4958; dom: come (inf.) 358, 4732, 4820, 4857, 4924, 5029, 5089, 5120, 5164, 5172, 7188, 7778; boke: smoke 7100, 8592; buke: smoke 9402; colour: flour 694. Add to these the following from the North. Benedictine Rule: gude: mode 292, 609; mode: gude 306, 666, 1030; cum: dom 519, 2317,1311; wouke: luke 1549; crystendoume: cum 1898. The Northern dialect exhibits vast variations from all the other dialects. Here we find the old North.1 a (which prob 1 We are not concerned with the a introduced from Romance sources, which was of course retained here as in all the other dialects, because the rounding of the a into the q seems to have been completed before the Romance a found its way into English. ably was not so open a vowel as the same in the South) preserved, as well as the old North. o before ld, mb. Now a few cases of o for the old a appear, and it is a very reasonable supposition that such words as form the exceptions, as loverd 'lord' (of very frequent occurrence in the Pricke of Conscience), were introduced from the South. However that may be, only a few cases occur as exceptions to the rule. The old North. a and o in open syllables are of course retained, and are both open vowels. The 6 of Romance origin is not infrequently written u, which seems very significant as pointing to a sound very like, if not quite, w. The old close 6 seems certainly to have undergone a very remarkable change, for here our texts exhibit with striking frequency u. This phenomenon I take to be conclusive evidence that the old 6 had certainly begun to be raised to the high posit...
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