So, too, are kivver for cover, crap for crop, and chist for chest. Contrariwise, e displaces a in catch and radish, which are commonly pronounced ketch and reddish. Standard English has 19 separate vowel sounds. Here we are upon a wearing down process that shows many other symptoms. One finds, not only vowels disorganized, but also consonants.
L disappears, as in a'ready and gent'man.
The s- sound becomes tsh, as in pincers. The same tsh replaces ct, as in pitcher for picture, and t, as in amachoor. So is the final h in heighth. An excrescent b, as in chimbley and fambly, seems to be native. Ordinary, like extraordinary, is commonly enunciated clearly, but it has bred a degenerated form, onry or onery, differentiated in meaning.