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 sa tak chou shu am ta mil weyn baddak nitghada etc maybe it should also be noted that in parallel with arabic writing there is a tendency to omit vowels