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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3008370, member: 19463"]I like it very much. If we want to be really picky the spacing of the legend should move the O next to the Y since Greek used the diphthong OY for the W sound that starts Valerius. You will see it used in Vespasian and Valerian as well. The Γ is for Gaius which has no o. Transliterations are a problem in every language and we are rarely fully consistent when we do such things. Latin/Greek are pretty easy compared to what we face on some Eastern languages being expressed in English.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3008370, member: 19463"]I like it very much. If we want to be really picky the spacing of the legend should move the O next to the Y since Greek used the diphthong OY for the W sound that starts Valerius. You will see it used in Vespasian and Valerian as well. The Γ is for Gaius which has no o. Transliterations are a problem in every language and we are rarely fully consistent when we do such things. Latin/Greek are pretty easy compared to what we face on some Eastern languages being expressed in English.[/QUOTE]
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