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[In the spoken language is now used to express motion only in a few stereotyped phrases like, going to Dingle;, going to Rome; , from Derry to Strabane, &c. In all such cases it is pronounced .]

§ 63.

§ 64. I am not going from the fort yet; I am not going to the well. The day is hot, I am not hot. The field is not green. You are not at Granard. The horse is going to the well. Leave the wool on the stool. The wool is white. Una is young, she is tall, and she is not weak Nora is weak, yet, she is growing.

We think it better to defer the study of these sounds until we have spoken of combinations of vowels.