Initial consonants in strong syllables without written vowels are pronounced with their inherent vowels. The word ("to tie") is pronounced , ("weak", "to sink") is pronounced . In some words, however, the inherent vowel is pronounced in its reduced form, as if modified by a "bântăk" diacritic, even though the diacritic is not written (e.g. "corpse"). Such reduction regularly takes place in words ending with a consonant with a silent subscript (such as "every"), although in most such words it is the "bântăk"-reduced form of the vowel "a" that is heard, as in "noise". The word "you, person" has the highly irregular pronunciation .