Historically, the conventional Portuguese spelling of the name was "Joseph", just as in English, though variants like "Jozeph" were not uncommon. Following the 1910 revolution, the Portuguese spelling was modernized. The first Reform of Portuguese orthography of 1911 elided the final mute consonants and from Biblical anthroponyms and toponyms (e.g. "Joseph", "Nazareth") and replaced them with the diacritic on the final , indicating the stress vowel (e.g. "José", "Nazaré"). In Portuguese, the pronunciation of vowels varies depending on the country, regional dialect or social identity of the speaker: in the case of the ranging from &lt;a href="Close%20back%20rounded%20vowel"&gt;/u/&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href="Close-mid%20back%20rounded%20vowel"&gt;/o/&lt;/a&gt;; and in the case of , from &lt;a href="Close-mid%20front%20unrounded%20vowel"&gt;/e/&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href="Open-mid%20front%20unrounded%20vowel"&gt;/ɛ/&lt;/a&gt;.