Irish stepdance traditional step dance in Munster. This style is largely performed on the balls of the feet with toes pointed outwards. Competitive dancers are judged on posture, timing, rhythm and execution, which in practice means a rigid torso, rapid and intricate footwork, and legs and feet crossed over each other, with knees close together. Irish stepdances can be placed into two categories. Solo stepdances, which are danced by a single dancer, and group stepdances, which are coordinated with 2 or more dancers. "Reel", "slip jig", "hornpipe", and "jig" are all types of Irish stepdances and are also types of Irish traditional
Comparison of Scottish Gaelic and Irish recent spelling reform has meant that there are now only grave accents in Scottish Gaelic, the opposite of Irish. Similarly, in Scottish Gaelic the prefix is always hyphenated, while in Irish it is attached to the beginning of the word, as illustrated by the languages' respective names for each other: Additionally, while the prefixes and are usually hyphenated in both languages, in Irish they are attached to the beginning of words whose first letter is capitalised (in Scottish Gaelic they are always hyphenated). A number of letter combinations are possible in written Irish which are not found in Scottish Gaelic