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To add to the sibling comment mentioning that "v" as the vowel "u" was a thing in Latin historically, it does get used this way sometimes in "fancy" signs in En

• madcaptenor 2y ago
  The main entrance to MIT has carved over it MASSACHVSETTS INSTITVTE OF TECHNOLOGY
  • gorlilla 2y ago
    My initial instinct was that a v is easier to engrave than a u because straight lines. That falls short once you notice all of the other curvy letters.
    • dhosek 2y ago
      In majuscule forms (i.e., all upper case) V was the normal shape for u/v while in minuscule forms (i.e., all lower case), u was the normal shape. This is why you’ll see V in engravings rather than U. Albrecht Dürer‘s Of the Just Shaping of Letters which shows only upper-case forms provides a V shape but not a U shape. His textura, at the end of the book, has a single letter in the upper-case, but both ü and v in the lowercase with a distinct base character beneath the umlaut for ü.
  • baking 2y ago
    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Massachvsetts_Institvte_of.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Massachvsetts_Instit...