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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2573919, member: 10461&quot;]Someone may correct me if I&#039;m wrong, but I&#039;m pretty sore that&#039;s a holdover from old Roman times.&nbsp; The Romans didn&#039;t have a letter &quot;U&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Edit: I&#039;ve heard it said that this is because a &quot;U&quot; would be more difficult to chisel into stone than a &quot;V&quot;, but I have no idea if that&#039;s true or not.)</p><p><br /></p><p>This is why you will often see old 1920s neoclassical buildings here in the USA that say &quot;COVRT HOVSE&quot;, or, for that matter, &quot;IN GOD WE TRVST&quot; on the Peace dollars.&nbsp; They were simply mimicking the Romans.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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