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MR HENRY BELLYSE BAILDON ON 



Ami. o = WS. ie. 



S 44. Rimes with 



a) itself. 



heir (v) : deir, 99, 163. 107, 132. 

 steiris : heiris, 267, 4. 



b) general OE. and W. Ger. e. 

 steill : weill, 75, 25. 137, 78. 

 heir : deir, 77, 20. 



c) OE. e = mut. of o (see § 39). 



skeilis (NSc. skeel, OFris. skeel) : heillis, 176, 

 356. 



d) OE. 55. 



skeilis : quheillis (NE. wheel), 176, 356. 



e) OE. ae. 



ten : quhen, 75, 11. 



f) Ang. e = WS. ea + gutt (see § 49). 



g) OE. e. 



ten : ken. 75, 10. 

 ,, : men, 74, 7. 

 fen, 166, 220. 

 h) OE. y. steir (NE. stir) : deir, 119, 49. 137, 53. 

 i) OF. ei. 



steir (steer) : heir, 34, 11. 

 k) OF. e and ie. 



steir (v) (NE. steer): cheir, 33, 3. 217, 11. 

 ,, : perseveir, 33, 7. 

 „ : maneir, 217, 12. 



It is evident that ten had already undergone shortening, perhaps from the frequent 

 use of tenfold. 



The word steir (NE. stir, OE. styrian) is in Dunbar's time already long, and that is 

 another indication of the lengthening influence of the Scotch r. 



Angl. e = WS. ae WGrmc. a 

 § 45. 1) followed by r, rimes with 



a) itself, 

 ^eir : sweir (OE. swser = heavy, 34, 19. 

 3eir : feir (NE. fear), 246, 105. 



b) OE. ea. 

 geir : eir, 251, 32. 



c) OE. e. See § 33, etc. 



d) General OE. or ON. and W.Gmc. e (see § 42). 



e) OE. ea, feir (NE. fear) : geir (OE. gearae), 254, 



31. 



f) Angl. e = WS. ie. 

 3eir : steir, 34, 15. sweir : steir (v) (NE. steer), 



34, 19. 

 3eir : heir (v), 231, 1. 



g) OE. a. 

 thair : fair (OE. faran), 71, 19. 



h) OE. a. 



war (were) : mair : sair, 256, 10. 

 hair : mair, 193, 40. 



thair : mair : sair, 71, 15, etc. 

 „ : lair, 194, 76. 

 ,, : evirmair, 221, 18. 

 i) ON. ae, 3eir : feir (ON. faerr = sound), 244, 51. 

 k) OE. se + g. See above § 3. 

 1) OF. e. ie. 



3 eir : perseveir, 33, 7. sweir : cheir : perseveir, 34, 

 19. 

 „ : presoneir, 113, 1. 114, 8. 

 „ : cleir, 231, 2. 

 ,, : appeir, 244, 52. 

 m) OF. a. 



thair : repair, 74, 2. 

 o) OF. ai. 



hair : air, 106, 114, 193, 48. 

 thair : air, 96, 66. 

 p) OF. ei. 



3 eir : heir, 34, 11. 



§ 46. Following Dr Curtis, I have taken thair as derived from \aer, but it seems 

 more likely that, like mair, sair, etc., it represents an original a in the form par, as is 

 well recorded in OE. I think, however, with Dr Curtis, that thair has probably a 

 double sound, viz. e and I, as I have often heard the latter sound in modern Scotch 

 dialect, and my impression is that the two pronunciations may be heard in the same 

 individual according to the position of the word. This second form, thlr, is another 

 instance of the influence of r on the preceding vowel, an influence Dr Gerken so per 

 sistently denies, but which must, I say, be very obvious to anyone who has heard much 

 Scotch spoken. The word aware, for example, is often pronounced in Scotch awir. 

 This may also be influenced by the w, as I have pointed out, in words like ' swie ' (N^- 



