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Page 44 - If you should use some other sound — for example, the sound of oo in blood — you might be misunderstood. Syllables that are accented, that is, pronounced louder than others, are written in capital letters. In Italian unaccented syllables are not skipped over quickly, as they are in English.
Page 13 - Greece belong to the Greek Orthodox Church, a branch of the Eastern Orthodox Church.