that has become silent, but in most cases, it was added later simply to indicate the end of the stem. Similarly, in Scottish Gaelic, hiatus is written by a number of digraphs: . Some examples include "river"; "day"; "condition". The convention goes back to the Old Irish scribal tradition, but it is more consistently applied in Scottish Gaelic: (> ). However, hiatus in Old Irish was usually simply implied in certain vowel digraphs (> ), (> ). Correption Correption is the shortening of a long vowel before a short vowel in hiatus. See also Diphthong Synaeresis Elision Movable nu References Phonetics Vowels Further reading