_{ue}_, the sound intended being that of the German _ue_ in _schuetzen_, to protect.

In the latter case, Kentish usually has the vowel _e_, as in the modern Kentish _pet_, a pit, and in the surname _Petman_ (at Margate), which means _pitman_; and as the A.S.for "sin" was _synn_ (dat.

_synne_), the Kentish form was _zenne_, since Middle English substantives often represent the A.S.dative case.

The Kentish plural had the double form, _zennes_ and _zennen_, both of which occur in the _Ayenbite_, as might have been expected.
The poet Gower, who completed what may be called the first edition of his poem named the _Confessio Amantis_ (or Confession of a Lover) in 1390, was a Kentish man, and well acquainted with the Kentish dialect.
He took advantage of this to introduce, occasionally, Kentish forms into his verse; apparently for the sake of securing a rime more easily.

See this discussed at p.