 The use in Italian of  and  to represent /tʃ/ or /dʒ/ before vowels written neatly distinguishes "dico" 'I say' with /k/ from "dici" 'you say' with /tʃ/ or "ghiro" 'dormouse' /g/ and "giro" 'turn, revolution' /dʒ/, but with orthographic  and  also representing the sequence of /tʃ/ or /dʒ/ and the actual vowel /i/ (/ditʃi/ "dici", /dʒiro/ "giro"), and no generally observed convention of indicating stress position, the status of "i" when followed by another vowel in spelling can be unrecognizable.For example, the written forms offer no indication that  in "camicia" 'shirt' represents a single unstressed syllable /tʃa/ with no /i/ at any level (/kaˈmitʃa/ → [kaˈmiːtʃa] ~ [kaˈmiːʃa]), but that underlying the same spelling  in "farmacia" 'pharmacy' is a bisyllabic sequence consisting of the stressed syllable /tʃi/ and syllabic /a/ (/farmaˈtʃia/ → [farmaˈtʃiːa] ~ [farmaˈʃiːa]).Stop consonants shifted by lenition in Vulgar Latin in some areas.