sentences:  Reports of Maine English in the 1970s reported a similar "toad-towed" distinction among older speakers, but was lost in subsequent generations.In accents that preserve the distinction, the phoneme descended from Early Modern English is usually represented by the spellings "ou", and "ow" as in "soul", "dough", "tow", "know", "though" etc.or through L-vocalization as in "bolt", "cold", "folk", "roll" etc., while that descended from Early Modern English is usually represented by "oa", "oe", or "oCe" as in "boat", "road", "toe", "doe", "home", "hose", "go", "tone" etc.