Gw mau tau 'mayor', from French dari E (Kiril)

'peer (a noble)', from French

'sir', from English or from Old French

'master, skilled artist', from French

new additions (1980s and later) are more numerous:

and several others; spelling of new words sometimes varies and dictionaries often give variants or contradict one another (like  'hatchback (car)' in spelling dictionary vs / in explanatory dictionary).

In proper nouns, however,  may occur after consonants:  'Ulan-Ude' and  'Blair'. However, many such loanwords are spelled with :  'Blériot' (a French aviator). That is the case especially for names that entered the language centuries ago like: , 'Berlin'. The use of  is much more frequent for names from non-European languages:  'Mao Zedong'.

The letter  is also used in Russian to render initial  in foreign words: thus  (the river in France) is written . After consonants this is transcribed as . In the 19th century, some writers used  for that sound in both positions, but that was never accepted as standard orthography. (The letter  was re-invented in the 20th century for Kildin Sami.) It is also used to represent a stressed  in languages such as English, which can cause a problem of conflating  with English  (for example, "Addison" and "Edison" would be spelled the same). However, in other positions, Russian also uses  for  and  for .