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NOTE ON THE SPELLING OF PROPER NAMES

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As a guide to ,the pronunciation of Arab proper names a long
accent has been employed (a, i, 5, or u), to indicate the length of the
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vowel above which it is placed ; the Arabic consonant ‘iw has
been rendered by the symbol" ; and the Hamzah (the cutting oh of
the breath which can precede or follow a vowel) is represented by
except at the beginning or end of a word and in some common
components of place-names, such as Bir, ‘ well ’, and Ras, ‘ head-
■ land The aim has been to assist the reader in a correct pronun­

ciation without overburdening the text with a large number of
diacritical marks. The system of transliteration adopted is explained
in greater deta'il in the Note on pp. 612 ff.
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Conventional spellings of names, when sanctioned by long
tradition, have been retained, e.g. Bedouins, Mecca, Mocha, &c.;
and in some well-known names accents have been omitted, us in
Asir, Hejaz, and Oman, For a list of Conventional Sptellings, with
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their correct equivalents, see p. 618
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