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Index.
DOW EAS
Downright, 147, 185 E, replaces a, 39, 43, 71, 143
Drag, 128 — replaces œ, 39, 50, 57, 61, 67, 69, 71, 74, 82, 102
Drake, 167, 168
Draught, 114 — replaces ea, 43, 61, 88, 261
Draw, 84, 126, 128 — replaces eo, 43, 49, 50, 61, 95, 129, 261
Drawbridge, 179
Dray, 128 — replaces i, 68, 74, 87, 136
Dreadful, 122 — replaces o, 50, 59, 61
Dream, 131, 255 — replaces u, 86, 121
Dreg, 152 — replaces y, 43, 49, 68, 71, 88
Drench, 95 — a letter popular in the South­east of England, in the middle of a word, 68
Drink, 95
Drive, 121, 275
Drivel, 116 — popular in the North, 175
Droop, 116 — omitted at the end of a word, 310
Drought, 102, 127
Drove, 88 Ea, retained in Dorset and the South, 33, 37, 116, 175, 223, 260
Drummond, 306
Drunkenness, 248
Dry, 50, 88 — replaces œ, 52, 80, 116, 118
Dryden, 124, 304, 305, 312, 313, 344 — replaces eo, 39, 49, 59, 85
— replaces y, 40, 49
Dual Number, 7, 23, 37 Each, 60, 73, 78, 81, 86, 100, 166, 184, 266
— — is dropped, 166
Duck, 168, 212 Eadred, 46, 47
Duck, to, 179 Eagre, the, 42
Dunbar, 231, 297 Ear, to (arare), 2, 12, 301
Durham, 146, 203, 331 Earl, 102
During, 26, 269 Earle, Mr., 34, 56, 138, 190, 284
Dusk, 122 Early English Text Society, the, 165, 174, 196, 320, 370
Dutch, the, 18, 286
— words akin to English, 63, 64, 75, 82, 90, 92, 100, 105, 106, 115, 116, 117, 123, 131, 142, 152, 161, 169, 170, 174, 177, 211, 213. See Friesland, Fri­sian Earthly, 105
Earthly Paradise, the, 319
Ease, 224
Easily, 104
East Anglia, 19, 41, 42, 45, 52, 55, 62, 91, 127, 128, 129, 137, 142, 166, 182, 190, 194, 269, 278, 310, 353
Dwell, 97
Dwindle, has d inserted in the middle, 26
East Midland, the, 55-66, 68, 70-77, 81, 87, 92-110, 115, 122, 125-133, 142-145, 155-167, 162-174, 254, 256, 257, 259, 263, 268, 271, 285, 304
 
 
E, its sound is represented in many ways, 175