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  " Joy 337   " Alegría 337   " Blame 337   " Censura 337   " Anger 338   " Cólera 338   " Antipathy and Aversion 340   " Antipatía y Aversión 340   " Sympathy and Friendship 342   " Simpatía y Amistad 342 Correspondence 344 Correspondencia 344 To begin a Letter 344 Principiar una Carta 344 To end a Letter 346 Concluir una Carta 346 English and Spanish Idiomatic Expressions and Proverbs 347 Expresiones Idiomáticas y Refranes Ingleses y Españoles 347 Vocabulary of Business Words and Expressions in Everyday Use 361 Vocabulario de Términos y Expresiones Comerciales de Uso Diario 361 English, American and Spanish Coins, Measures and Weights 408 Monedas, Medidas y Pesos Ingleses, Americanos y Españoles 408

REMARKS ON PRONUNCIATION.

THE SPANISH ALPHABET.

The Spanish Alphabet consists of 28 letters:
A a ah	J j [A]hotah	R r ereh (or erreh)
B b beh	K k kah	S s esseh
C C theh	L l elleh	T t teh
Ch ch cheh	Ll ll elyeh	U u oo
D d deh	M m emmeh	V v veh
E e eh	N n enneh	X x ehkis
F f effeh	Ñ ñ enyeh	Y y yeh (or ee gree-eh´gah)
G g [1]heh	O o oh	Z z thehtah
H h acheh	P p peh
I i ee	Q q coo
[A] throat aspirate.

The letter k occurs only in words of foreign origin.

The vowels are: a, e, i, o, u. The letter y is a vowel also at the end of a word, as in rey, king, and in the conjunction y, and.

ACCENTS AND SIGNS.

The acute accent (´) is the only one now in use in Spanish, and it serves to indicate the syllable on which stress is to be laid. It marks departures from the rule that words of two or more syllables ending in a vowel or n or s are stressed on the last syllable but one, and those ending in a consonant (except n and s), on the final