And how did the Romans pronounce Julius Caesar? Iulius Keh-sar? Julius Seh-sar? I've always wondered cause other European names for caesar could sound like Keh-sar (as in German Kaiser), or Tsar (Russian ts sound).
And another thing that always made me scratch my head is when the U being written as a V in public buildings even in the United States. It could be either Roman or English, but IIRC, V seemed to be in place of U. I assume they were pronounced as U back then. When did they start replacing V with U? And how did they spell our modern day V back in those days? W?
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