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Side question: I always thought it was spelled Virgil, has it been decided to spell his name differently?
by rgrieselhuber 3y ago
Side question: I always thought it was spelled Virgil, has it been decided to spell his name differently?
- rgrieselhuber 3y agoHuh, TIL: https://www.thoughtco.com/is-it-virgil-or-vergil-116735 https://www.thoughtco.com/is-it-virgil-or-vergil-116735
- LegionMammal978 3y agoBoth spellings have been used in English for a long time [0]; "Virgil" is just the far more common of the two. Wikipedia claims that the original spelling "Vergilius" was changed to "Virgilius" some centuries after his death [1], and the latter became the form that spread to other languages. [0] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Virgil%2CVergil&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=1 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Virgil%2CVergi... [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil#Spelling_of_name https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil#Spelling_of_name