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to a plant or an animal, a bacterium or an elephant. [see<br />
Rule 20.2]<br />
30<br />
Gastrop• for Gastropoduloj (Gastropodidae)<br />
Fanerog• for Fanerogamuloj (Phanerogamae)<br />
1. This abbreviated form has to be marked by a capital letter<br />
at <strong>the</strong> beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g and a po<strong>in</strong>t at <strong>the</strong> end, preferably by a<br />
midway dot as used <strong>in</strong> ma<strong>the</strong>matics. The normal number<br />
of syllables goes from one to four, although exceptions<br />
may occasionally occur to avoid homonymy.<br />
18<br />
Fag• for Fageskoj Fagales<br />
Abi• for Abieskoj Abietacea<br />
Shelyker• for Shelykereskoj Chelyceratae<br />
Konusofor• for Konusoforuloj Coniferophyta, Coniferae<br />
F<strong>in</strong>ally we come to <strong>the</strong> not unimportant matter of<br />
Orthography, valid for <strong>the</strong> Key <strong>in</strong> particular as well<br />
as for common Uniespo.<br />
1. All characters are pronounced as <strong>the</strong>y are written, and<br />
written as <strong>the</strong>y are pronounced, whatever <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
position<strong>in</strong>g, whatever speech sound comes before or<br />
after. 8 So <strong>the</strong> antique C and Q(ue) are gone —<br />
supplanted by ei<strong>the</strong>r S or K or TS.<br />
Consequently, no more variations of <strong>the</strong> sort: sutchuenensis,<br />
setchuenensis, szechuanensis, szechwanensis, setchwanensis,<br />
szechuenensis... but uniformly and simply: setshwanuja.<br />
[The suffix -U J stands for “land, region”]<br />
8 Uniespo also provides a system for transliteration of names from non-<br />
Lat<strong>in</strong> alphabets, called “Universala Skribo” (Universal Writ<strong>in</strong>g).