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Vowel 5.
* oi, oy: Vowel 9.
* oo: Vowel 6, a 19th-century borrowing from Standard English. hoose (house), moose (mouse) etc. Vowel 7 also occurs from the spelling of Standard English cognates.
* ou: The general literary spelling of vowel 6. Occasionally vowel 13. Root final may occur in southern dialects. cou (cow), broun (brown) etc.
* ow, owe (root final): Vowel 13. bowk (retch), bowe (bow), howe (hollow), knowe (knoll), cowp

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