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Rh æ for a: hæle 1013, bæres 202.

æ for e: fuþer-fæte 44 418.

œ for æ: dœl 48, wambe-wyœce 142, etc. (As pointed out p. XI all the œs due to that confusion have been silently normalized into æs.)

u for a: æscolupio 27, pannum 1220.

u (u’) for o: teu’rse 1824.

ū for en: lungū 125.

y for r: wambe-wyœce 142.

l for ð: linra 413.

r for w: areȝ 416.

r for n: toðreomera 2222.

n for m: laecedon 613, nin 143.

f for s: læcecræftef 29, gyft (for gytst) 2220.

f for w: nife 1825, fif-þingūd 2213.

þ for h: teoþ 165, þurþ 165, þeoþ-wrace 182.

sw for þ: swa 1813.

h for þ: hara 419, he 129, awirph 1625.

b) It seems natural to explain by association a certain number of other confusions. I understand them to be

α) letter associations.–Either a letter is anticipated: lelome for ȝelonie 141, fulfes for wulfes 2017 2020 2021, fulfune for wulfune (i. e. wylfene) 2025, merurh for mearh–the a being moreover written u–223 deolfolseocnesse for deofolseocnesse 2017, nærdran for nædran 82–notice the curious neardran 227 where the erroneous insertion of r causes breaking (also due perhaps to eardien which immediately follows?). Add to these some cases of metathesis: swȳrðanan for swyðran 220, and nosþrul 1612;

β) grammatical associations.–receles for recelses 128 may imply a tendency to understand recels as a gs.; in Rh