Appendix:Anglo-Norman spellings

Anglo-Norman is a dialect of Old French that developed in what is now the United Kingdom after the invaded. While it remained extremely similar to continental Old French, over the centuries, certain spelling differences arose.

Spellings
Anglo-Norman retained some features of Latin that were lost in standard continental Old French (OF). For example Latin gave OF  and Anglo-Norman. See the table below for more examples.

Generally speaking, in OF becomes  in Anglo-Norman. This also applies to conjugated forms. becomes in words like, which itself later becomes

Over the centuries, some single vowels becames dipthongs. became, (more rarely ) became. Many of these words influenced English more than OF. For example is more similar to Anglo-Norman  and OF