O, for oe, as mot[h]er, among, from.
O, for u, as brot[h]er, come, some, word, world, wont, t[h]e verb; anot[h]er, good, blood, not yonder.
O, for a, nort[h]erly, as paredg, [h]arses, carn, amang.
U is us’d promiscuously, as appears in the vowels afore going, but not so frequently as the rest, as [h]ugh long, hug short; [h]uge, voluble, superfluous after b and g, as build, guard, not regard, q being call’d cu, needs it not; guide, not gilbert.
But v consonant not call’d ev, with a different caracter, is no less absur’d than j consonant, not call’d ij, with a different figure, as mejer for measure, as the French also use it, as je vou remercy. So osier, [h]osier, easier, azure, &c.
F us’d for v anciently, as d for th, as fader; but spokn as we do now: ev is us’d for f in the West, as vire, vield, for fire, field, and we put p for v in upper: The Hebrews put veth for it, beth for b, the Spaniards make v, b, but to let other Languages alone, we pass to
The Diphthongs.
Whereof 3 be very absurd, ee for which the Latins us’d ij, as ijdem oculi lucent, eadem feritatis imago est, Ov. met. The Greeks made Eta a doble e, as also oo OMEGA.
2. Oo, for which the Latins us’d uu, as uva, uuula, and the British and Hebrews double u.
3. Aw, all, au, as augre, maugre, awe, law, all, calf, (se the rest in l.) and ao properly, as graot, gaol, gaot.