Excerpt from Mion-Ċaint: An Easy Irish Phrase Book; Compiled for the Gaelic League It is not a rule. It is a natural law of Irish arti culation. That law is as vigorous now in the spoken Irish as ever it was. It was not made by scholars, nor by bards, nor by grammarians. It belongs by nature to the language. It must be admitted that the thought of introducing it into the spelling of the words was a magnificent thought. It has been a most fortunate thing for us and for our language that the ears of our fathers were so good, and that they gave us the result in black and white. Had they not done so, and had our language ceased to be spoken without any person's having called attention to that law, the knowledge of its existence would have been lost. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.