... positions, whereas the later ones tend to have b and g, especially when medial, and especially in Alemannic sources), but this is probably of a purely orthographic nature, and should be interpreted as meaning that the sounds indicated were always voiceless, but unaspirated and lenis in nature...

... in the Palatinate, e.g., [di: ibac] ; some are used only in the Franconian area, e.g., [givgde] ; others are distinctly Alemannic, e.g., [ doxdere] .25 The variants of Lehigh County are divided equally between those which are common to most of south- western Germany and those which are used only...

.... Southern Alsace, Central Baden (no information was available for Southern Baden), and Southern Wiirttemberg may be called “Alemannic” areas, while the others here will be considered “Franconian.” Cmoll E. Reed 287 information thus presented cannot...