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merly was in general ufe, but which now 

 feems to be confined to provincial dialects, 

 or is not at leaft heard in fajhionabls lan- 

 guages. 



The oo before k changes into long ; as 

 book, luke ; to look, to lake : before /, /, m* 

 tb t generally into ea long ; as boots, beats ; 

 fool,/*?/; broom, bream ; tooth, teatb : be- 

 fore r, moftly into ee ; as floor, fleer; door, 

 deer. 



Ol before ^generally becomes au\ as, old, 

 aud ; cold, caud; wolds, wauds : in one in- 

 ftance the / is mute ; as, hold, bod. 



In words ending \nault or alt, the /is like- 

 wife mute, the termination becoming in both 

 cafes aut- 9 as fault, faut', fah,fauf- t malt, 



maut * 



X 4 The 



* This brings to my mind a circumflance which de- 

 fcrves notice ; as it Icrvcs to fhew theprecf/s ofcorrvp- 

 tion, or as others perhaps will have it, refinement of lanr 

 guages. There are, in many cafes, t-ivo diftintt provin- 

 cial language* in this Diftrift : one of them fpoken by 

 the lower clafs, more especially of old people j the 

 other by the fuperior clafs of provincialijls. The fii ft 

 I fliall call the vulgar tongue (though in all probability 

 the purer language) ; the other the middle dialetf, 

 Thus the Eng'ifh word malt is in the vulgar tongue 



