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Re: Elizabethan orthography (Re: Some toenotes )
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Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>
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Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 20 Feb 2005 06:58:23 -0000
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> or had the "v" symbol not been invented yet? I think (though this may be folk-orthography) that this goes back to Roman carving -- it was easier to chip-out a "v" on a slab of marble (no curves) than a "u". R.
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