The tables below summarize the forms of the definite article, its elisions, and its contractions. Note the elisions in "mult(um)" and "ill(e)" in the third line. It is the most musical of the Konkani dialects with its consistent use of elisions. These mutual elisions present a particularly difficult political dilemma for women of color. Observe the elisions in line 2 (o) and line 4 (am). Therefore, these elisions effectively created words that existed only in poetry. In French, elisions are mandatory in certain contexts, as in (elided from *). Elisions likely occurred regularly in Latin, but were not written, except in inscriptions and comedy.