A printable pronunciation guide to Gaelic spelling  O Goireasan
Akerbeltz Gearr leum gu: seòladh, lorg  First of all, thanks for
all the people who wrote in suggesting we do a reference guide
to Gaelic spelling they could just print out - Gun robh mìle
math agaibh, a chàirdean!  Second, a small apology. When we
started, we thought we could collapse it into one page - which
by the end of the day had turned into two pages - and after we
added the diphthongs, it had turned into three. And after we
formatted it into something more readable and less confusing, it
had turned into four whole pages... then came a long pause while
I was writing Blas na Gàidhlig. It has grown considerably, so
I've created a full version (with examples) and a concise
version (without examples.)  Just one or two things you need to
know (apart from knowing how to read the IPA) to use the guide.
• Anything in brackets means it can either be there or not: a(i)
stands for both a and ai, à(i) for à and ài etc.   • C stands
for Consonant, b