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(In “Czech,” the English spelling of Čech, the cz is pronounced like “ch” in “cherry,” and the final “ch” like “ch” in the Scotch “loch”—or like the German “ch” in “Buch”).

The consonants are pronounced like their English equivalents with the following exceptions:—

A hook over e (ě) softens it into ye; as in Purkyně, pron. Poor-kyn-ye(r).

The primary stress in Czech words always falls on the first syllable.