written language. We have plenty of examples of similar phenomena. It would be difficult to find written instances of the pronouns scho, or she, their, you, the auxiliaries sal, suld, &c., before the twelfth century; but their extensive prevalence in the thirteenth proves that they must have been popularly employed somewhere even in times which have left us no documentary evidence of their existence."
I prefer to consider this termination as -en, a mere extension of the subjunctive form to the indicative.
2. An infinitive form in -ie; as to sowie, to reapie,—Wiltshire. (Mr. Guest).
3. The participial form in -and; as goand, slepand,—Lincolnshire (?), Northumberland, Scotland.
4. The common use of the termination -th in the third person present; goeth, hath, speaketh,—Devonshire.
5. Plural forms in -en; as housen,—Leicestershire and elsewhere.
6. Old preterite forms of certain verbs; as,
| Clom, | from | climb, | Hereford and elsewhere. |
| Hove, | — | heave, | ditto. |
| Puck, | — | pick, | ditto. |
| Shuck, | — | shook, | ditto. |
| Squoze, | — | squeeze, | ditto. |
| Shew, | — | sow, | Essex. |
| Rep, | — | reap, | ditto. |
| Mew, | — | mow, | ditto, &c. |
The following changes (a few out of many) are matters not of grammar, but of pronunciation:—
Ui for oo—cuil, bluid, for cool, blood,—Cumberland, Scotland.