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etc., the letters in the various words have the same values as in the 

 Spanish language. 



The only Philippine author who has used any other method of 

 spelling the native names is Tavera in his "Plantas Medicinales." 

 In this work the consonants are pronounced as follows: g always 

 as in get ; h a gutturalized aspirate ; A; as in English ; w always as the 

 initial iv in English, as win, won ; g as ng in sing, hung, etc. While 

 this method of spelling the native names has much to commend 

 it, it has not been adopted in the present work, for the reason that 

 no attempt has been made by the Americans so far to change the 

 spelling of the words of the native dialects, and accordingly it was 

 deemed advisable to retain the plant names under the spelling 

 recorded. 



