Lomonosov, on the grounds that "the letter Е, having several different pronunciations, could serve in the pronoun and the interjection " and that it was inappropriate to introduce letters solely for use in loanwords. However, the inclusion of in its modern function, in the Russian Academy's Dictionary of 1789–94, marks the point from which it can be considered as an established part of the Russian orthographical standard. There were still some objections to the letter even as late as 1817, when M. T. Kačenovskij was questioning whether "yet another hard э" was necessary when the language already had "a soft ѣ and a hard е". In contemporary Russian, is used to represent , in initial position ( 'electricity') and postvocalic position ( 'duel'). Among such words are only a few native Russian roots: (это 'this is', этот/эта/это 'this (m./f./n.)', эти 'these', поэтому 'thus' etc.), (экий 'what a'), / (эдак/этак 'that way', эдакий/этакий 'sort of') and a few interjections like 'hey', 'uh, oh', 'uh'. Even though Russian contains a significant number of loanwords in which occurs after a hard (unpalatalised) consonant, it is still the practice to use the letter for , : (tennis, sepsis). There are few traditional exceptions to that practice among common noun loanwords: the original list (the first half of the 20th century) contained just three words: 'mayor', from French 'peer (a noble)', from French 'sir', from English or from Old French two later additions (1950s-1960s): 'master, skilled artist', from French , from French new additions (1980s and later) are more numerous: 'racket, racketeering', from English 'rap (music)', from English 'fantasy (literature)', from English and several others; spelling of new words sometimes varies and dictionaries often give variants or contradict one another (like 'hatchback (car)' in spelling dictionary vs / in explanatory dictionary). In proper nouns, however, may occur after consonants: 'Ulan-Ude' and 'Blair'. However, many such loanwords are spelled with : 'Blériot' (a French aviator). That is the case especially for names that entered the language centuries ago like: , 'Berlin'. The use of is much more frequent for names from non-European languages: 'Mao Zedong'. The letter is also used in Russian to render initial œ in foreign words: thus (the river in France) is written . After consonants this is transcribed as . In the 19th century, some writers used for that sound in both positions, but that was never accepted as standard orthography. (The