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 slender consonant. The “e” glide is very marked, except when it is initial or follows.

In Ulster is pronounced like the “o” in “lord,” “adorn” &c, preceded and followed by a slender consonant.

119. This trigraph gets the sound of, preceded by a broad consonant, in Connaught and Munster. After a labial the sound is like “wee.”

In Ulster, the sound is that of in that province (viz., German ö) followed by a slender consonant.

120. In Munster, in the following words =, preceded by a broad consonant.