Contributions to the History of the Durham Dialects An Orthographical
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The words kind and mind are recorded with long vowel everywhere and at any time, whereas the cases of ind are distinctly rare and late and are evidently not genuine dial, pronunciations. For 16th cent. Sc. Cf. Heyne, § 40 (§ 47 u/nd). (2) OE i/ht. The mod. Equivalent of this sound* group is [it] : [brit] 'bright', [lit] 'light' sb. , [nit] 'night', [rit] 'right', [sit] 'sight'. There are a few deviations which are to be interpreted as substitutions for StE pronunciations: nDur [reit\, Dur [feit...\ sDur [meit] 'might' sb. — or as direct adoptions from StE: nDur [lait] adj. , nDur [fait], nDur [matt] sb. — At first the process was the same as in the South: the spirant was dropped and the vowel was leng- thened by compensation. But this took place too late for the new III to partake of the diphthonging; it coincid- ed with III
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