The letter e is a diphthong, and sounded like / in French ; au is
like ' how,' not like ' awe ' ; y is always a consonant.
Of consonants, it is only necessary to mention that th is never
a sibilant (either as in this or thin) but only / with a slight aspirate \
The kh and g& (with a line under) are the gutturals of the Perso-
Arabic (like ' loch ' and 'lough ' in Scotch or Irish). As there are
two kinds of £, we use for the one k> and the other q without the
conventional u added.
ABBREVIATIONS.
To save space, the letters L. R. are occasionally used instead of*
printing ' Land Revenue ' at full length ; so S. for * Settlement ; ' and
P. S. for ' Permanent Settlement.'

As ' Settlement ' is a word which has other meanings (e.g. it may
refer to a location or place of settlement of a colony, a tribe or
7a family), it is written with a capital S whenever the term is used in
its technical or Revenue sense.
*Z. S. £. /.' refers to my Land Systems of British India, 3 vols.
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892.)

1 In Burmese the sibilant th occurs, not in any Indian dialect.
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