Oy for ifoyne, twoyne, for fine, twine,—Cheshire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk.

Oy for oofoyt for foot,—Halifax.

Oy for onoite, foil, coil, hoil, for note, foal, coal, hole,—Halifax.

Oy for aloyne for lane,—Halifax.

Ooy for oonooin, gooise, fooil, tooil, for noon, goose, fool, tool,—Halifax.

W inserted (with or without a modification)—as spwort, scworn, whoam, for sport, scorn, home,—Cumberland, West Riding of Yorkshire.

Ew for oo, or yootewn for tune,—Suffolk, Westmoreland.

Iv for oo, or yoo when a vowel follows—as Samivel for Samuel; Emmanivel for Emmanuel. In all these we have seen a tendency to diphthongal sounds.

In the following instances the practice is reversed, and instead of the vowel being made a diphthong, the diphthong becomes a vowel, as,