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137. In such words as, &c. the liquids are voiced; but they are not voiced in, &c.

138. A peculiar feature of Desmond Irish is that the letters which get the sound of suppress the slender vowels beside them, provided the slender vowel is part of a digraph or trigraph—e.g., pronounced, and consequently the plural form  is pronounced is pronounced.

These words ought not to be spelled as they are pronounced in Desmond, because the Desmond pronunciation of these words is very different from that of the rest of the country.

139. Eclipsis is the term used in Irish Grammar to denote the suppression of the sound of certain Irish consonants (when initial) by prefixing others; both, consonants are written, but only the first—i.e., the