Examples Someone who has not seen this alphabet used in practise before could conclude from the table and the examples provided that it is a more or less fixed transliteration system for Modern Standard Arabic In reality however it is almost always used to transliterate spoken Arabic i e dialects and there is an enormous amount of variation For example contrary to what the table suggests both and are usually represented by s the distinction by using a capital S for looks very neat but I have never seen it in use I would therefore suggest to provide more realistic examples such as Lebanese kif keef sa7tak chou shu 3 am ta3mil weyn baddak nitghada etc Maybe it should also be noted that in parallel with Arabic writing there is a tendency to omit vowels 79 219 118 88