The Romance languages do not follow the German practice of capitalizing all nouns including common ones. Unlike English, the names of months, days of the weeks, and derivatives of proper nouns are usually not capitalized: thus, in Italian one capitalizes "Francia" ("France") and "Francesco" ("Francis"), but not "francese" ("French") or "francescano" ("Franciscan"). However, each language has some exceptions to this general rule. The tables below provide a vocabulary comparison that illustrates a number of examples of sound shifts that have occurred between Latin and Romance languages. Words are given in their conventional spellings. In addition, for French the actual pronunciation is given, due to the dramatic differences between spelling and pronunciation. (French spelling approximately reflects the pronunciation of Old French, c. 1200 AD.) Data from Ethnologue:  Overviews:  Phonology:  Lexicon:  French:  Portuguese:  Spanish:  Italian:  Rhaeto-Romance: