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§ 20 used dd and d̛; Dr. M. in the Bible, 1588, used dd, which in spite of J.D.R.’s dh, 1592, has prevailed.

☞ In this grammar Ml. W. d when it stands for dd (ẟ) is transcribed ẟ.

In Ml. W. the letter g stands initially and medially for the sound g. The voiced spirant ᵹ had then disappeared.

(2) But g is also used as well as ng for the sound ng (ŋ) (as in Eng. song). When final, g must mean the nasal, for the explosive is written c, § 18 ii; thus llog 90,  180,  87 must be read llong ‘ship’.

☞ In this work Ml. g when it represents the nasal ng (ŋ) is transcribed g̃.

The sound ff is represented in O.W. by f, as finn, fionou = ffɥnn ‘sticks’, ffionou ‘roses’; sometimes medially by ph as in ciphillion  ‘sprouts’, grephiou  ‘pencils’, Griphiud  814, § 36 ii, and p or pp as Gripiud. 1, Grippi(ud)

(2) In Ml. W. the sound ff is represented initially by f, both when it is radical and when it is a mutation of p, though in the latter case ph is perhaps more usual; rarely we have ff; thus ban foher 5 ‘when they are put to flight’, fort do. 33 ≡ fforẟ ‘way’, ny forthint do. 34 ‘they did not cherish’, ny phercheiste do. 21 ‘thou hast not respected’; A fa le e maynt i 160,, a phy &hellip; , ‘and where they are’; heb ẟant yn ẏ fenn  453 &hellip; yn ẏ phenn  101 ‘without a tooth in her head’; ffoes  44 ‘fled’. Medially and finally it is generally ff, as diffuis 35 ≡ diffwys ‘steep’, proffuid do. 85 ‘prophet’, grofft 52 ‘croft’, anffurvaw do. 29 ‘to disfigure’, gorffen do. 5 ‘to finish’, sarff do. 186 ‘serpent’, hoff 72 ‘desirable’. It also appears as ph, as corph 20 ‘body’, (g)orphen do. 76 ‘end’; and often as f, as deu gorf 5 ‘two bodies’, anfurɏf do.