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The most troublesome inconsistencies in transliteration seem to be owing either to the human tendency to conceal doubt behind abundance or to multiple naturalizations as the name migrates across Europe.

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  1. The act of transliterating; the rendering of a letter or letters of one alphabet by equivalents in another. The transliteration does not profess to give all the exact vacalic differences. The Academy, June 28, 1890, p. 448.

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