"Consonantal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... origin, so that the character can scarcely be regarded as an essential part of the Roman alphabet. About the year A.D. 44, the Emperor Claudius tried to introduce three new symbols into the alphabet: (1) the inverted diagamma [Picture: inverted diagamma] to mark the consonantal sound of V; (2) the character known as "anti-sigma" [Picture: Anti-sigma] to express the sound denoted by the Greek ψ (ps or bs); and (3) the sign [Picture: a Latin form of upsilon], which was ...
— Latin Pronunciation - A Short Exposition of the Roman Method • Harry Thurston Peck |
