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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 2360575, member: 75525&quot;]I semi remember from Latin class (almost 5 decades ago) that you had to know the word to pronounce it right. In English, how do you pronounce the &quot;c&quot; in cent and cat. I could try to look up the V vs U answer in my 8th grade Latin book, but ... I tore up the book in class to show my dislike for the subject. I think that my interest in Roman coins is some kind of cosmic payback.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since I do not have a book, I did the next best and googled an answer -</p><p><br /></p><p>V&#039;s and U&#039;s</p><p>Q - I&#039;ve seen the following combinations of letters used by various Latin texts and scholars: V&#039;s and U&#039;s (virumque), just V&#039;s (virvmqve), just U&#039;s (uirumque). Which letter scheme is correct?</p><p><br /></p><p>A - The Roman alphabet originally did not have separate symbols for &#039;U&#039; the vowel, and &#039;V&#039; the consonant. (They also did not have separate symbols for &#039;I&#039; the vowel and &#039;J&#039; the consonant). Since they considered &#039;U&#039; and &#039;V&#039; the same letter (which they made like a V), and since their alphabet was all capitals, our Julius Caesar would be their IVLIVS CAESAR.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.textkit.com/greek-latin-forum/viewtopic.php?t=3916" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.textkit.com/greek-latin-forum/viewtopic.php?t=3916" rel="nofollow">http://www.textkit.com/greek-latin-forum/viewtopic.php?t=3916</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]481475[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]481476[/ATTACH] </p><p>two different IVs in names and an XVI obv[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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