Books and other items printed in Gaelic from 1841 to 1870 > Double grammar, of English and Gaelic, in which the principles of both languages are clearly explained

ORTHOGRAPHY.
come Gentle spring, Ethereal
mildness come,
and From the Bosom of yon
dropping cloud,
while music Wakes around,
veiled in A shower
of Shadowing Roses, on our
plains Descend.
Divide the following words
into Syllables, and tell how
many there are in each,—cor¬
recting the Spelling of the
Gaelic
Absent, ancient, abstemious,
arrogant, antler, boiler,
bachelor, carter, capricious,
condemnation, coalition, coeval,
design, delicious, effect,
efficacious, effrontery, foster,
fierce, ferocious, filter,
gorgon, gesture, humour,
heterogeneous, imprudent,
immediately,jeopardy, judicious,
kaleidoscope, luminary, music,
musician, novice, onomatopeia,
onion, pendulum, poison, query,
quaternion, recruit, solar,
society, Socinian, transient,
trigonometry, union, universal,
verse, vermilion, wonderful,
yellowish, zoology.
SPELLING.
What is Spelling? How is
the spelling of the English and
Gaelic Language chiefly regu¬
lated ?
Correct the false spelling in
the following English words.—
A pear, asend, acuse,
beginn, benin, consise,
• The words marked with a |1 are
properly spelt.
LITIREACHADH. 35
o! earraich Chaoin, a chiuine
neamhaidh diuchd,
’s, a’ uchd an Neoil ud a ta
Braonadh driuchd,
air raontaibh alba Toir leum am
measg ciiiil,
is sgail-fhras Ros, a comhdach-
adh do ghniiis.
Roinn na focail a leanas gu
Smidean agus airis cia lion a
tha anns gach aon,—a ceartach-
adh cubadh na Gaelig.—
Neo-lathairacb, sen, mesarra,
ladara, cabir, goiladar,
fleasgeach, cairtar, neoneach,
ditadh, aonnadh, comh-aossda,
runn, millis, eifachd,
eiffeachdach, laddarnas, arich,
borbb, fiadhech, siolidh,
uile-bhest, gluassad, toilaich,
iol-ghneithacb, gorrach,
gu gradd, cunart, tuigsach, *inn-
eal-sgiomhachaidh||, sollus, col,
fillidhjiiragan || ,ainm-dheanamh ||
uinan, crochadan,||nimh,||ceest,
ceithar, leasich, grianeil,
comun, Socinianach, || failasach,
triantanachd, aoneadh, uilach,
ran, corcur,|| ionganteach,
car-buidh, || cunntas-ainmhidh.||
CUBADH.
Ciod e cubadh ? Cia mar tha
cubadh na Beurla’s na Gaelig
gu mor iar a riaghladh ?
Ceartaich an cubadh mearachd-
ach ’sna focail Bheurla Teanas—.
Seall, dirich, dit,
toisich, caoimhneil, gearr,
• Tha na focail comharraichte le ||
cubta gu ceart.