| each | teach | peach | reach | speech |
| bleach | screech | leech | breach | beech |
| coach | roach | poach | broach | preach |
| fetch | stretch | itch | botch | notch |
| blotch | catch | sketch | crutch | pitch |
| latch | batch | snatch | ditch | match |
| hatch | patch | hutch | twitch | clutch |
| switch | witch | stitch | scratch | flitch |
This table contains a further development of the two sounds of th.
| fifth | tenth | strength | thud | thill |
| thing | thump | thick | thank | thatch |
| throb | throne | thrust | thrash | thrush |
| this | thus | these | those | that |
| them | than | then | the | thee |
| thy | bathe | lathe | seethe | lithe |
| blithe | withe | clothe | scathe | thine |
| breathe | soothe | smooth | thence | sheathe |
In the following list of words ie has the sound of long e.
| field | niece | priest | piece | shield |
| grief | yield | siege | thief | relief |
| brief | chief | fiend | shriek | believe |
In the following list of words o has a sound midway between its sound in for and in fox.
| cost | moss | song | broth | frost |
| soft | toss | long | cloth | strong |
| lost | loss | tong | froth | loft |
In the following list of words a has the sound of short o.
| was | wand | swap | what | swamp |
| wad | wash | swan | want | wander |
| wan | wasp | swab | watch | washer |
Two vowels together are often sounded separately.