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Chap. 6.
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spoken; dün for dun, done; and tüm for tjm, time; rjch for rich, rich; ðör for ðër, there; brïks for brichez, breeches; seln for self, hez for hath, aus for âlso, sud for shüld; J'l, J'st or even ai'l, aist for J wil, an indication of the future; in the other persons, ðou'l or ðoust for ðou wilt, ðou shalt, and thus for the rest: hï'l or hïst; wïl; you'l or youst; ðei'l, ðeist or ðei sal. In ai they dispense with the i, thus for pai pay, pä; for sai say, sä; and for said, sed. For u and ü they substitute v: thus for gud kük, they have gvd-kvk, good cook. For a few words, they even invent a colloquial term, such as strunt and runt for rump, rump; sark for shirt, shirt; for go, go, they have gang, and from that gangrel, a beggar; for went, went, yed or yöd, which they have preserved up to now from the ancients.

Southerners use ü for ï, thusfor hï, he. They use 𝑣 for f, thus 𝑣il for fil, fill; to 𝑣ech for fech, fetch; and by contrast, f for 𝑣, thus fineger for 𝑣ineger, vinegar; ficar for 𝑣icar, vicar. They also have o for a, thus ronk for rank, rancid or excessively abundant; in addition, as a noun it means order in a line of battle, or something else. For s they substitute z, thus zing for sing, sing; and Ich for J, I; cham for J am, I am; chil for J wil, I will; chi vör yi for J warant you, I warrant you. And also in ai, after the separation of the diphthong, they unpleasantly draw out the a: thus, to päi, to pay; ðäi, they.

Easterners, in contrast to the rest, make sounds narrower: for instance, they say fir for fjer, fire; ki𝑣er for ku𝑣er, cover. They use ea for a; thus, to deans for dans, dance; 𝑣 for f, thus 𝑣elöu for felöu, fellow; z for s, thus zai for sai, say. Yet our flashily-adorned Mopseys greatly exaggerate having this thinness, and in fact narrow everything in such a manner that otherwise, they might not be seen to abhor a and o more than Appius Claudius did z. Thus, also, do our own not buy laun and kämbrik, types of linen, but lën, and

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