PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Níl focal bréige, smid bhréige, ann, every word, syllable, of it is true.
Guta, siolla, ~, short vowel, syllable.
Siolla ~, superfluous syllable.
Siolla ~, penultimate syllable.
~ agus airdrinn, stressed syllable at end of line rhyming with unstressed syllable of longer word at end of following line.
Ní raibh ~ as, there was not a syllable, a squeak, out of him.
Ná bíodh ~ as do bhéal, don’t breathe a syllable.