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AI as in
aisle.

AU as the
ow
in
how.

EO as a combination of
eh
and
oh.

EW as in Welsh, a combination of
eh
and
oo.

IE as in
pier.

OE as the
oy
in
boy.

UI as the North Welsh
wy,
a combination of
oo
and
ee.
Note that OI is never a diphthong, but is two distinct sounds, as in
carnoic,
(Kar-noh-ik).

Consonants
are mostly the same as in English, with these exceptions:

C is always hard as in
cat.

G is always hard as in
get.

DD is the voiced
th
as in
the,
but the voicing is more pronounced than in English. It is opposed to TH, the unvoiced sound as in
thin
or
breath.
(This is the sound that the Greeks called the Celtic tau.)

R is heavily rolled.

RH is a voiceless R, approximately pronounced as if it were spelled
hr
in Deverry proper. In Eldidd, the sound is fast becoming indistinguishable from R.

DW, GW, and TW are single sounds, as in
Gwendolen
or
twit.

Y is never a consonant.

I before a vowel at the beginning of a word is consonantal, as it is in the plural ending
-ion,
pronounced
yawn.

Doubled consonants
are both sounded clearly, unlike in English. Note, however, that DD is a
single letter,
not a doubled consonant.

Accent is generally on the penultimate syllable, but compound words and place names are often an exception to this rule.

Table of Incarnations

About the Author

THE SPIRIT STONE

Katharine Kerr was born in Ohio in 1944 and now lives in San Fransisco. Her extensive reading in the fields of classical archaeology and medieval and Dark Ages history and literature has had a clear influence on her work. Her novels have been published around the world and she is a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic.

By Katharine Kerr

The Deverry Series:

DAGGERSPELL

DARKSPELL

DAWNSPELL

DRAGONSPELL

A TIME OF EXILE

A TIME OF OMENS

A TIME OF WAR

A TIME OF JUSTICE

THE RED WYVERN

THE BLACK RAVEN

THE FIRE DRAGON

THE GOLD FALCON

THE SPIRIT STONE

Other Fiction:

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FREEZEFRAMES

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With Mark Kreighbaum:

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