the word Beatles for some English speakers or the second syllable of the word "rhythm". It is also roughly equivalent to European Portuguese , the Polish y or the Russian ы. The letter e generally represents the mid front unrounded vowel , somewhat like in the English word set. However, the letter e is pronounced as ([j] sounds like 'y' in 'you') when it is the first letter of any form of the verb a fi "to be", or of a personal pronoun, for instance este "is" and el "he". This addition of the semivowel does not occur in more recent loans and their derivatives, such as eră "era", electric "electric" etc. Some words (such as iepure "hare", formerly spelled epure) are now written with the initial i to indicate the semivowel. x represents either the phoneme sequence as in expresie = expression, or as in exemplu = example, as in English. As in Italian, the letters c and g represent the affricates and before i and e, and and elsewhere. When and are followed by vowels and (or their corresponding semivowels or the final ) the digraphs ch and gh are used instead of c and g, as shown in the table below. Unlike Italian, however, Romanian uses ce- and ge- to write and before a central vowel instead of ci- and gi-. Punctuation and capitalization Uses of punctuation peculiar to Romanian are: The quotation marks use the Polish format in the format „quote «inside» quote”, that is, „. . .” for a normal quotation, and double angle symbols for a quotation inside a quotation. Proper quotations which span multiple paragraphs do not start each paragraph with the quotation marks; one single pair of quotation marks is always used, regardless of how many paragraphs are quoted. Dialogues are identified with quotation dashes. The Oxford comma before "and" is considered incorrect ("red, yellow and blue" is the proper format). Punctuation signs which follow a text in parentheses always follow the final bracket. In titles, only the first letter of the first word is capitalized, the rest of the title using sentence capitalization (with all its rules: proper names are capitalized as usual, etc.). Names of months and days are not capitalized (ianuarie "January", joi "Thursday"). Adjectives derived from proper names are not capitalized (Germania "Germany", but german "German"). Academy spelling recommendations In 1993, new spelling rules were proposed by the