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In Kentish, Southern, and southern West Midland Middle English, the fricatives /f θ s ʃ/ were voiced to /v ð z ʒ/ at the beginning of a word or morpheme. This change has gradually been reversed due to the influence of the East Midland standard, but this was recent enough to leave traces in dialect literature in many regions, while relic items persist even today, whether dialectally or in the standard language. Terms where historically voiceless initial fricatives have come to be voiced due to other processes, such as borrowings from other Germanic languages with analogous sound changes, should not be included in this category.