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10 N. rHOCLAlR GAIDHLIG AGUS BEURLA.
proper to write carid, a friend, and not caraid ; Icfachadb., to mend, and
not Icjfjcbadbj agreeable to the Well known adage.
Lcathan re Leathan,
Agus Coal re Caol,
Leughar is Sgriobliar,
Gach focal fan Tfaoghal.
Xo vowel is filent at the end of word,-.
The fame vowel is never doubled in any word.
All the vowels are founded, fonietimcs long, at otiier times fiiort :
To prevent niiftakes, the long ought to be marked thus ; ailhne, (long.) a
command, aitbne, (fliort.)toknow, d:(e, I. a place, ait, s. ghd-^-ira^/j, 1. a
garden, gjnidb, s. a cave or den, cud, 1. jealous, or zeal, f:Vc,s. B bur-
then, eigbeacb, 1, to cry, cagal, s. fear, mile, 1. a raile, a thoufand, mil, s.
honey, mrr, 1. a piece, mire, s. mirth, oglacb,\. a fervant, cgaiiacb,s. a
youth, dachas, 1. hope, dzcbann, s. hurt, ulr, 1. dufl, --lifge, s. water,
suU, \. the zyt,fiiilhbdr, s. pleafant.
All the vowels, in words of more than one fyllablc, are founded fliort,
except in the firft, as a in tl;e Englifh word woman ; e as in women ; i as es
in feed ; o as in forgotten; n as o in foot ; but fliorter and more obfcure.
III. Of the Vowels separatf.lt.
1. A generally founds long, like an in Englifh ; as adhmbor, fortun-
ate, dr, flaughter, gabbtidb, danger ; fomet'mcs fl;ort, like a in the En-
glifti words what, that ; as abar, a mi.e, abair, fay thou, &:c.
2. A before dh, or gh, founds like the diphthong ao, in the following
words ; as adhlac, to bury, cxlbarc, a horn, adbart, a bolfler, agbaidh,
the face, magh, a fi^ld ; but like as lorg in adbb.v-, a cnufe, adbradc,
wcrfi.ip, and fome ethers.
E
E founds like at in praifc, in <?, ory?, he, re, during the time of, Sec.
2. E likcwifc founds long in the following and feme others ; c^ the
earth, te, a woman, and d^ ycflerday, cigin, a (Irait, ^acail, a dileafe ;
the diflcrcnce here is one of many cafes to be learned only by ihs car
when fpoken gracefully.
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