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121. This trigraph = preceded and followed by a slender consonant (Connaught, Ulster and Munster).

122. This trigraph occurs in only one or two words—e.g., (=  + slender ), the gen. of  (broad ).

123. This trigraph has been introduced into Irish writing only very recently. The Literary spelling of this trigraph is ( being employed later). The sound is preceded by a broad consonant (§ 71). The final is broad in Desmond (hence the spelling {{insular|uío), but slender everywhere else, consequently the literary spelling  had better be retained.

It may not be out of place to mention here that the termination {{insular|-ġail}} is employed to form verbal nouns from many verbs expressing sounds made by the mouth and speech organs; also from verbs expressing sudden actions.