November 6, 2024

NOV 6, Latin lovers: VNVSVAL spellings

  ) Review of material posted on November 6 in previous years ...


2020: anagram swarm, R-I-C anagrams 7 (wordplay)  
2021: exotic destination, Congolese hippodromes (illustrated poem)
2022: bar-fauna, Hamlet at the pub (illustrated poem) 
2023: waterfowl, egrets (live-action photos)

To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... Congolese hippodromes), into one of the two search bars at the the top of your blog-page. Underneath the slides for each entertaining delight that you discover, you will find a clickable link that lets you easily explore a more widespread collection of wonderments (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 
disputation at the spillway

b) Today's Offering (Nov 6, 2024):


In classical Latin, the letter 'U' did not exist, and the equivalents of  both 'U'  and 'V' were represented by the letter 'V'. This orthographic  pecvliarity was enthvsiastically pvrsved by the emperor Avgvstvs, and persisted in the Roman province of Ontario into the early 20th centvry. 













sample exhibit: a stvffed BVFALLO



To review all of ovr ovtpvt on the svbject of classic langvages, go to ovr encyclopedic compendivm "Edifying Nonsense"; click HERE !


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