£

£

NOTE: The letter £ (see Vèneto Arkìvio for appropriate symbol), known as the "Vènet L", or as the "vanishing L", represents a pronunciation unique to the Vènet territory. It is not only distinct from the regular L, but it has in itself slight dialectical variations. For example, in the Venician area it becomes almost an E, while in the inland it becomes closer to an L, and, as mentioned above, in some mountaneous areas it is rarely present at all. Aside from its slight variations, the usefulness of this letter for the Vènet language is to allow words to be written the same in different dialects, and to let the reader pronounce it according to its customs, regardless of the writer's origin. For example, góndo£a instead of góndola, gódoea or góndoa. It even helps not confusing words (for example if instead of skó£a (school), we write skóa, it will be confused with skóa (broom)).