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exercise X

§ 84. Other examples of Munster pronunciation—

  Connaught Munster
cam, crooked (kom) (koum)
Cill-dara, Kildare (kil-dhor'-ă) (keel-dhor'-ă)
fonn, air of song (fŭN) (fouN)
gann, scarce (goN) (gouN)
linn, a pool (lin) (leeng)
tinn, sick (tin) (teen), (teing)

§ 85. The sounding of ó as ú, sometimes heard in Munster, is to be avoided ; as, Nóra (Noor-ă), mór (moor), (Noo)

§ 86. is the imperative mood, second person singular of the verb "to be"; as, ná bí mall, do not be late.

§ 87. Vocabulary

dán (dhaun), a poem
long (Lŭng), a ship
ród (rōdh), a road
sinn (shin), we
ór (ōr), gold

 

note that
phonetic
symbols
are not
necessarily pronounced
as in English

See § 13-16

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