N E. B. WILLIAMS'S enlightening article and Brazilian Spelling, published in the last number of HISPANIA (XXV, 2, May 1942), we note the omission of one interesting divergence between the spelling (and pronunciation) of Portugal and that of Brazil. Under Miscellaneous Differences (2) is mentioned the fact that tonic o + m or n in proparoxytones is open in Portugal, therefore bearing an acute accent, but close in Brazil, where it bears a circumflex accent: c6modo, quilometro in Portugal; c6modo, quil6metro, etc., in Brazil. At this point the writer might have added that the vowel e generally proceeds in similar fashion: tonic e + m or n in proparoxytones is close in Brazil, and is open in most of so-called standard Portuguese. To be sure, Candido de Figueiredo considers this open quality limited to Lisbon and Entre Minho e Douro, and feels that the general phonetic tendency, from Algarve to Tris-osMontes, is to close the vowel. Accordingly he indicates many of these vowels as close, bearing a circumflex accent, in his Diciondrio da Lingua Portuguesa. However, his limits are certainly too narrow. Furthermore, since the open quality prevails in the capital and in much of the standard Portuguese region, other dictionaries published in Portugal indicate such e's as open and they are generally found in the modern spelling of Portugal bearing the acute accent: