On V, the letter

[Ian Livingston]

"He had given me a handful of flowers, a bouquet of photographs that I
tacked to the wall. I wrote him of the process of creation, the
divining rod and the forgotten vowel. I resumed the life of a
citizen." Patti Smith in "Just Kids"

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Before Shakespeare's time, the letter "v" used to stand for
> a consonant or a vowel,,,,,,,,interchangeable with  "u".........
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> From around 1640, 'v' represented only a consonant........
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