Gaelic Orthographic Conventions - Scottish Qualifications Authority

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Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................1
The spelling rule ................................................................................................................................................2
Consonant quality .............................................................................................................................................3
Consonant groups .............................................................................................................................................4
Vowel representations .....................................................................................................................................5
Word stress and emphasis ..............................................................................................................................7
Apostrophes and spacing ................................................................................................................................9
Sound adaptation and loan words .............................................................................................................10
Verbs ...................................................................................................................................................................11
Prepositional phrases .................................................................................................................................... 12
Hyphenation .................................................................................................................................................... 14
Other orthographic issues ........................................................................................................................... 16
a) Numbers ..................................................................................................................................................... 16
b) Months of the year .................................................................................................................................. 17
c) Dates............................................................................................................................................................ 17
d) Days ............................................................................................................................................................. 17
e) Surnames.................................................................................................................................................... 18
f) Place names............................................................................................................................................... 18
g) Personal titles ........................................................................................................................................... 18
h) Acronyms.................................................................................................................................................... 19
i) Abbreviations ............................................................................................................................................ 20
Word list ............................................................................................................................................................21