EAS

E, replaces a, 39, 43, 71, 143
replaces æ, 39, 50, 57, 61, 67,
69, 71, 74, 82, 102

-replaces ea, 43, 61, 88, 261
replaces eo, 43, 49, 50, 61, 95,

129, 261

replaces i, 68, 74, 87, 136
replaces o, 50, 59, 61
replaces u, 86, 121

replaces y, 43, 49, 68, 71, 88
a letter popular in the South-
east of England, in the middle
of a word, 68

popular in the North, 175

- omitted at the end of a word,
310

Ea, retained in Dorset and the
South, 33, 37, 116, 175, 223,
260

replaces æ, 52, 80, 116, 118
replaces co, 39, 49, 59, 85
replaces y, 40, 49

Each, 60, 73, 78, 81, 86, 100,

166, 184, 266

Eadred, 46, 47

Eagre, the, 42

Ear, to (arare), 2, 12, 301
Earl, 102

Earle, Mr., 34, 56, 138, 190, 284
Early English Text Society, the,
165, 174, 196, 320, 370
Earthly, 103
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

East Midland, the, 55-66, 68,
70-77, 81, 87, 92-110, 115,
122, 125-133, 142-145, 155–
157, 162-174, 254, 256, 257,
259, 263, 268, 271, 285, 304

EAS

East Midland, the Shibboleths

of, 62, 63, 147

Easy, 50, 130, 153, 279

Ed, the ending of the Past Parti-

ciple, clipped, 82, 83
Eden, Miss, 168

Edge, to, 95

Edgeworth, Mr., 332
Edinburgh, 146, 260

Review, the, 317

Edmund the Archbishop, 154, 231

- the Martyr, 52, 60, 92, 353
Edward, the son of Alfred, 44,
45, 46

Edward the Confessor, 61, 216,
235

Edward I., 7, 162, 165, 166, 174,

182, 183, 186, 196, 209, 233,
236, 238, 257, 258
Edward II., 273

Edward III., 260, 261, 263, 276
Edward IV., 283, 284
Edward VI., 301

Ee, the Suffix, 247

Ee, replaces e, 116, 148, 175
Een, the Irish Suffix, 247
Eer, the Suffix, 247

Es replaces eth in Verbs, 49, 50,
136, 143, 148, 156, 165, 185
Es, the ending of the Genitive
Singular, 5, 49, 50, 51, 94
— (=as)the ending of the Nomi-

--

51, 59, 166, 256

the old ending of the Second
Person Singular of the Pre-
sent, 8, 26, 148, 165, 185
the Northern ending of the
Present Plural, 62, 63, 282
Ese, the Suffix, 247
Esque, the Suffix, 247

Ess, the Feminine Suffix, 247,
268

Essex, 19, 41, 45, 47, 55, 69, 75,

87, 91, 137, 147, 154, 175, 182
Essex Homilies, the, 86-91, 105,
117, 136, 149, 220, 236, 256
Esthonia, 73

Et, the Suffix, 247

Eth, the Southern ending of the
Present Plural, 62, 63, 263,
295

lost in the middle of a
word, 53, 142, 190
Faery Queen, the, 308, 318
Fair, 91; fair and free, 161
Faith, 132
Falcandus, 54
Fall, 13, 26, 333
Falter, 142
Far, 3, 148, 282
and wide, 159
- be it, 291
Fare, 43, 168
Farquhar, 124
Fast, the Suffix, 15
Father, 4, 6, 49, 51, 290
Fawn, to, 120