In these sequences, became and then , while became and then . Both of these merged with existing diphthongs: as in law and as in throw.

At the end of a word or morpheme, this produced in all, ball, call, fall, gall, hall, mall, small, squall, stall, pall, tall, thrall and wall; in control, droll, extol, knoll, poll (meaning a survey of people,) roll, scroll, stroll, swollen, toll, and troll. The word shall did not follow this trend, and remains today.

Before coronal consonants,

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