> The program is fun, but I'd like it more if it spelled place names correctly. The spelling of "Luteci" seems to have been adpoted directly from the Tabula Pe

> The program is fun, but I'd like it more if it spelled place names correctly. The spelling of "Luteci" seems to have been adpoted directly from the Tabula Peutingeriana, where "Lutecia" (a late form of "Lutetia") is missing its final "a" (see the little image, when clicking on Paris in the map).[1] "U" and "V" could be used interchangeable in Latin throught most of its history.[2] Typically a text uses either "U" or "V" exclusively. Using "U" for the /u/ sound and "V" for the /w/ sound in the same text starts to appear in the late Middle Ages.[3] But even today a lot of scholarly editions prefer not to normalise an ancient text to "modern" spellings. In this case they typically use "V" throughout (I cannot remember seeing any that uses "U" throughout). The programme thus conforms to an established philological convention.[4] [1] "Luteci" seems to be a rather odd variant indeed. But if you type into the input box "Lutetia" it lets you select "Luteci". You may also use "Lisboa" to get "Olisipo". But yes, the programme primarily uses the spelling of its sources and does not include a sophisticated synopsis. But I can also understand that including such a feature for all these place names, each of which probably has half a dozen variants, would be a major undertaking in itself. [2] "V", which developed from "Y", was the older form. The graphem "U" starts to appear in Late Antiquity. There had been an earlier attempt of emperor Claudius himself, to introduce an upside-down Digamma (Ⅎ) for the /w/ sound, which did not prevail. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudian_letters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudian_letters [3] In many modern languages the letter "U" for a /w/ sound is preserved in some names, such as "Suetonius" (the first "U" is a /w/ sound), and in connection with "Q" as "QU", a combination of /k/+/w/ sounds. In English this combination is even used for words of Germanic origin, such as "Queen"; in contrast to e.g. Swedish "kvinna" ("woman"). [4] In this aspect the programme deviates from its source. The Tabula Peutingeriana itself, which is a late 12th century copy of of a presumably Roman original, uses a medieval script with a "u" graphem troughout.