Re: YO, ho ho, and a bottle of vodka

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2001 - 06:31:44 EST

At 20:41 +0100 2001-10-31, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
>* Michael Everson
>|
>| His name was Spurius Carvilius Ruga.
>
>Bright and Daniels gives his name as "Spurius Carvilius Rufa".

Sampson gives Ruga. And so do 28 documents searched in Google. Google
gives none with Rufa (for what it's worth).

One of the references is a course in Indo-European in Switzerland
which discusses Spurius Ruga in the context of orthographic reform.

Anyway poor Spurius (who is also known for being the first Roman to
get a divorce apparently) would certainly have had reason to invent
the letter G if everyone kept calling him Ruca all the time and he
got tired of it.

One of the Google documents is in Latin and discusses the divorce and
calls him Ruga. 

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