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The following names are frequently mentioned in the poem:

Kosciuszko [Kŏ-shchōōsh'kŏ], Rejtan [Ra'tan], Mickiewicz

[Mits-kyĕ'vĭch]. Note also the words wojewoda [vŏ-yĕ-vŏ'da] and

kontusz [kŏn'tōōsh].

Polish names in this book are generally given in their original

spelling, except that the diacritical marks used on many letters

in the Polish alphabet are here omitted, and that on (or om) and

en (or em) are substituted for the nasal vowels indicated in

Polish by a with a cedilla and e with a cedilla. But the English

names _Thaddeus, Sophia, Eva, Rosa, Thomas, and Joseph_ have been

substituted for the Polish forms Tadeusz, Zofia, Ewa, Roza,

Tomasz, and Jozef. (Yet the Polish title of the poem, Pan

Tadeusz, has been left unchanged, as it has become widely known

through works on Poland, and as a suitable substitute for it is

hard to find: Pan Thaddeus would be a displeasing hybrid.) The

few Russian names that occur are given as though transliterated

from the Russian, not in the Polish form: Suvorov, not Suwarow.