NOTE: The letter S is always pronounced as s in English sun. Some prefér to also use it as z in English zone, and to use the double S to distinguish the two sounds. This method, however, encounters a couple of problems. First the Vènet language in general does not have double consonant sounds. Second, and most important, the Vènet language is rich of vocabs that use both sounds (s as sun and z as zone), and a distinction in symbols needs to be made. For example, the word sixì£a (swallow - type of bird) cannot be written sisìla, ssisìla, because to confusing and not true to the actual pronunciation. A number of authors choose to use the letter Z to represent z as in English zone. However, the letter Z is already used to represent another sound present in some dialects, and the use of such letter, to represent the sound of z as in zone would not be appropriate for the whole territory, and may consequently create further confusion (see letter X for more).
The letter S is also used for the diagraph SH ( as sh in english shell ). This pronunciation is ONLY present in the ladino-vènet dialèct, and it is not present in the rest of the territory. For example, shénta (seat). The Vèneto Arkìvio illustrates the appropriate symbol used for this sound. For the alphabet of the Vènet language, SH is chosen instead of SC, because the latter is already too common in many Vènet words (for example: scào (slave), scòpo (gun), scéto (autentic), scéve (hedge), scàsaro (very dirty), scavìna (harrow -farm utensile), scokàre (to click, to clap), scona (ring)).Some, to avoid confusion with the Italian diagraph SC (same pronunciation as SH), use S-C for the above words.