Note 13 — INTRODUCTION.

This is the letter which disfigures Russian words so much when written in Roman characters. “I defend,” which has but seven letters in the original, is thus conveyed by fourteen—sashchishchaju; and much more awkwardly in the German system of orthography by twenty—saschtschischtschaju. Its exact sound may be produced by connecting together the two last syllables of the words establisht-church.