The ĕ in such words as linnet usually takes the u sound, giving us linnut. In yes it is lengthened out into eece in S. Wilts, and in N. Wilts into cez.
Long e or ee is shortened into i, as ship, sheep, kippur, keeper, wick, week, fit, vit, feet, the latter word sometimes being also pronounced as ve-ut.
Heat becomes het, and heater (a flat-iron), hetter; while hear is usually hire in N. Wilts.
I short becomes e, as breng, bring, drenk, drink, zet, sit, pegs, pigs.
Occasionally it is lengthened into ee, as leetle, little.
In hit (pret.) and if it usually takes the sound of u, as hut and uf or uv; but hit in the present tense is het, and if is often sounded as ef in N. Wilts.
At the beginning of a word, im, in, and un usually become on, as onpossible, ondacent, oncommon.
In present participles the sound given varies between un', en', and in', the g almost invariably being dropped.