is required, will start off in many directions. In taking down Series in Donegal I found great difficulty in getting them in the first person singular, which seems to be little used; while the speakers generally dropped into the conditional mood if allowed to do so. A friend of mine suggests it is because they have not developed the Ego so much as more pushing races.
Even people who know Irish well may profit much by getting and noting down Series from native speakers. It is a wholesale way of capturing uncatalogued words. It is like fishing with a net for them instead of using the rod and line. We may get technical terms from the very people most likely to know them, from people who have to know them. By getting the Series connected with any trade or calling from an Irish speaker connected with that trade or calling we cannot fail to obtain every Irish word known in the trade.
