Faux Cyrillic

Other examples include the use of Ш for W, Ц for U, Я/Г for R/backwards and upside-down L, Ф for O, Д for A, Б, Ь, or Ъ for B/b, З, Э, or Ё for E, Ч or У for Y.

A reversed ☭ (written as ☭) is also sometimes used for G.[4] A common substitution is $ for S.[citation needed] Further variants include an inverted or rotated K (ꓘ), which is not used in any alphabet except Fraser.

Many versions of Tetris, including those by Atari/Tengen and Spectrum Holobyte, used faux Cyrillic to spell the name as TETЯIS (tetyais) to emphasize the game's Russian origins.

The mockumentary film Borat used faux Cyrillic to stylize its title as BORДT (Bordt, in Russian the name would be spelt БОРАТ).

The letters А, В, Е, Ѕ*, І*, Ј*, К, М, Н, О, Р, С, Т, Ү*, У, Ғ*, Ѵ*, and Х (*used in other Cyrillic alphabets or from Church Slavonic) are strongly homoglyphic or related to Latin letters, depending on intended sound values to the point that their substitution may not be noticed, unlike those listed above.

A faux Russian T-shirt print reads "ШЗ́ДЯ" (WEAR). A Russian -speaker would read this as " shzdya ", a word that does not exist in the language. Moreover, the accent over the letter З never occurs in Russian, as it is a consonant , although the letter З́ does exist in Montenegrin language .