At 14:09 -0800 2001-10-30, Wm Seán Glen wrote:
>How about a monument to Spurious Rufus who came up with the letter G
>Seán
His name was Spurius Carvilius Ruga. About 300 BCE he, a freed slave
who opened the first Roman fee-paying school, added a stroke to the
letter C to distinguish the voiced phoneme.
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