appear to have acquired a palatal value in conjunction with front or palatal vowel-sounds, except in the north where c, and in some cases
, tended to remain guttural in such positions. This value was never distinguished in Old English writing, but may be deduced from certain phonetic changes depending upon it, and from the use of c, cc, as an alternative for tj (as in ort
eard, orceard = orchard, fetian, feccean = fetch), as well as from the normal occurrence of ch and y in these positions in later stages of the language, e.g. cild = child, taècean = teach,
iellan = yell, dae
= day, &c.