 The most striking difference between dialects in central and northern Spain and Latin American Spanish is "distinción" (distinction), that is, the pronunciation of the letter "z" before all vowels, and of "c" only before "e" and "i", as a voiceless dental fricative , English "th" in "th"ing.Thus, in most variations of Spanish from Spain, "cinco" (five) is pronounced as opposed to in Latin American Spanish, and similarly for "zapato", "cerdo", "zorro", "Zurbarán".