Words with Middle English with the diphthong generally developed to in Early Modern English (e.g. "paw", "daughter"). However, in some of the words with the alternation, especially short words in common use, the vowel instead developed into a long A. In words like "change" and "angel", this development preceded the Great Vowel Shift, and so the resulting long A followed the normal development to modern . In other cases, however, the long A appeared later, and thus did not undergo the Great Vowel Shift, but instead merged with the long A that had developed before and some fricatives (as described above). Thus words like "dance" and "example" have come to be pronounced (in modern RP, although mostly not in General American) with the vowel of "start" and "bath".