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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3597702, member: 27832&quot;]Have you actually taken a look at the reverse of a SLQ? It clearly displays E PLVRIBVS VNVM.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think you&#039;re confusing spelling with letterforms, part of what folks today think of as &quot;fonts&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Until the Middle Ages, there <i>was no</i> letter written as U, only V (descended from Y). That same letterform represented both the vowel we call U and the consonant we call V (although pronunciations have certainly changed over the centuries). That&#039;s why the letter we pronounce &quot;double-you&quot; is shaped like two V&#039;s stuck together, not two U&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>J similarly didn&#039;t separate from I until about the same time, although the details of its evolution are different.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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