Just Say "No"

To introduce one of the new letters, we present a Russian Alphabet Picture Drama (a play in one act).

At the right is a picture of a barricade. Whenever you see a barricade, you naturally think of no entry.

At the right is a Russian letter that looks very much like a barricade, and it has the sound of the first consonant in the words no entry.

We use this consonant in the Russian word for "no", spelled like this:

When you see the letter

, whose Russian name is pronounced "en", make sure you think of the "no entry" barricade -- if you don't, you're playing with the wrong rules!

Here are the individual letters that make up the word:

Capital Small Sounds like

n in no

ye in yet

t in top

Let's see a few words that we can put together with the letters that we now know.