The Bruce 23Book 11 · Words ending in er, ir, yr, yn, ill for the most part
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The Bruce 23
Book 11 · Words ending in er, ir, yr, yn, ill for the most part
BarbourEnglish
reject the final vowel before the ending of the plural: dochtrys, lettres or lettrys, wapnys, etc. Where the vowel is retained, it is silent, as in schulderis (IX. 356), letteris (XVII. 31, 39), etc.
NOTE.--Burges in XVI. 80, XVII. 236, is clearly unaltered in the plural, and this would seem to apply also to marras (VIII. 35), hous (VIII. 514, etc.), and mos (VIII. 173), which are usually read as three and two syllables respectively. Cf. on Singular (2).
