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-The {{t|ẹ'ano}} gotcha disappears: the displaced diacritic mark in {{t|eàno}} is enough to communicate that {{t|e}} is a separate morpheme and {{t|ano}} should open with a (now mandatory) glottal stop.
+:<small>The {{t|ẹano}} gotcha does not disappear per se. However, with the prefix reform, it is much easier to see that prefixes are not “special” raku that can be tacked on the front of a word willy-nilly: {{t|e<u>'àno</u>}} is spelled exactly the same as {{t|<u>e'ano</u>}}, just with the stress shifted away from the first syllable. Colloquially, the glottal stop could be omitted – {{t|e<u>àno</u>}} and {{t|buq<u>ùgı</u>}} can only be understood in exactly one way – however, watch out for codal {{t|m}}: {{t|ra<u>màno</u>}} ≠ {{t|ram<u>'àno</u>}}.</small>
 ==Pronunciation changes==