3 ro PROVINCIALISMS. 



The along is generally, but not invariably, 

 changed into eea; as, flake, fieeac ; lame, 

 beam ; late, heat ; or into a /hort, as, take, 

 tack ; make, mack. 



The e Jhort, before / and , is lengthened 

 by thejy confonant articulated as in yet, yes, 

 you : thus, well (a fountain) becomes weyl ; 

 to fell, tofeyl; men, meyn ; ten, teyn : in one 

 cafe it changes into e Jong -, as, well ^the ad- 

 verb), weel. 



The ; long feldom has the eftabliihed pro- 

 nunciation. Before />/ it generally changes 

 into e long ; as, night, met ; bright, breet ; 

 right, reel : before /, into a bread (as in father, 

 half, and before the letter r); as, mile, maal \ 

 ftile,y?^/i and does not, in any cafe, tal^c, 

 in flriclnefs, the modern found, which is a 

 Diphthong compofed of a broad ^and e: where- 

 as its provincial found here is, the accepted 

 found of ejhort lengthened by the y confo- 

 ttant*; as, white, wbeyt ; to write, to wreyt : 

 a mode of pronunciation which perhaps for- 

 merly 



* I fay, the accepted found of ejhort, though it is by 

 no means the aflual found of that vowel. I have nc- 

 verthelefs thought proper to give it the eibblilhed; 

 power in the Gloflary. The * Jbort I retain for the 

 fame reafon, though flill'more liable to objection. 



