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 mistake can possibly arise by using them, (for the consonant after can be kept unvoiced only by a strong effort), and as they have been adopted as the standard spelling in “The Irish Text Society’s Dictionary,” it is better to let them stand, than to alter them to ).

135. In Connaught and Ulster the combinations and  are always pronounced  and.

136. The various aspirated consonants, which get teethe [sic] sound of —viz., in terminations of verbs, and slender, unvoice the consonant beside them—i.e., they change the sound of into that of , v  into ,  into , and  into ; they also unvoice the liquids—e.g.,  is pronounced v, but if  be added, the  (= ) unvoices the , and  is pronounced.