A following r can modify it to eù: either neùron, Eùrope, pleùrisy are more commonly heard than neûron, Eûrope, pleûrisy. eŵ is used finally, and is therefore more common: vieŵ, feŵ, deŵ, Keŵ, Jeŵ, peŵ, neŵ, seŵer, neŵer, vieŵer, yeŵ tree (= yoû me) - cf. rewård (rí -). sew needle, however, is pronounced like sô therefore.— Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
It may, however, depending on the speaker, be stressed - and even written with an acute accent: café, risqué, roué for cáfè, rìsquè (- sk -; or rí -) and roûè. sergeant is pronounced as in Sir Málcolm Sàrgent.— Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Sa bhliain 1895 bhunaigh an rí "The Royal College of St Patrick for the better education of persons professing the popish or Roman Catholic religion". many pictures of a younger Barack Obama at previous St. Patrick's day parades.— Slugger O'Toole
Sa bhliain 1895 bhunaigh an rí "The Royal College of St Patrick for the better education of persons professing the popish or Roman Catholic religion".— Slugger O'Toole
An rim, a rí richid ráin corbom etal risin dáil: co cloister cech ní atber i sanct cech sen, a Dé máir.— The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints

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