Note that while every Slovak vowel can be either long or short, not all Slovak consonants have a soft counterpart. Technically, the digraph dz follows the letter d , but this is never mentioned explicitly, probably because it ends up there anyway. A program sorting a list of Slovak words must account for the rule that ch follows h and precedes i . In smaller dictionaries they may be combined. Letters with the other diacritics are almost always combined under the same heading.
Some languages drop the diacritics when presenting capital letters.
When a word starts with a digraph, and only the first letter is to be capitalized, the first letter of the digraph is capital, the second is in lower case. In Slovak, capitalization is used less often than in English. The first letter of a sentence is capitalized, so is the first letter of proper names, such as names of persons, streets, and geographical locations, but not names of languages or months. Note the word cel which is analogous to the English word point in this context. The thousands separator is optional.