This rule sometimes leads to the insertion of an orthographic vowel that does not influence the pronunciation of the vowel. For example, plurals in Gaelic are often formed with the suffix , for example, (shoe) / (shoes). But because of the spelling rule, the suffix is spelled (but pronounced the same, ) after a slender consonant, as in ((a) people) / (peoples) where the written is purely a graphic vowel inserted to conform with the spelling rule because an precedes the .