Cs, Ks, Ss, and Us, Vs

[Mulceber]

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).

You-lee-us Kai-ssar.

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.

That's because in latin, U and V were the same letter - it functioned kind of the same way as Y does in our language: it could be either a consonant or a vowel. If it was a vowel, it was pronounced pretty much the way we pronounce U, if it was a consonant, it was pronounced the way we pronounce W. Sometime during the middle ages (I think), U was divided into two letters - U and V (likewise, I was divided into two letters: I and J) because they saw a need to differentiate between them, partly because of the change in pronunciation. -M