At 14:09 -0800 2001-10-30, Wm Se�n Glen wrote: >How about a monument to Spurious Rufus who came up with the letter G >Se�n
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. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com 15 Port Chaeimhghein �ochtarach; Baile �tha Cliath 2; �ire/Ireland Telephone +353 86 807 9169 *** Fax +353 1 478 2597 (by arrangement)
