Hmm… I mostly encountered “V” in Latin inscriptions… I was always curious why the Oxford Latin dictionary use “u” instead of “v”…
Even the site omniglot uses a “v”… when I look at the etruscan alphabet, it also uses a “v”. So what is the true graphical chronology of these two letters?
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/latin.htm
From wikipedia:
“V stood for both u and v.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet
It seems like this is a popular fallacy…
I always kind of liked Latin with all the bells and whistles: i, j, u, v. But I guess I also like the variety of seeing different flavors of Latin too, sometimes with all i’s and sometimes with all u’s, etc.
I’m learning Chinese characters now and it makes my head hurt. 
If only Chinese just had a handful of variant glyphs.
I always imagine that if the Romans invade, then they will first seek out and slay us folks who write Latin with u’s and v’s. I wonder if they will have a word for that crime.
vari-vav-ismvs or uari-uau-ismus ? 
The “E” for the “H” is wrong, though I’ll give you the omega and the omicron should be the same, but eta and epsilon were two different letters originally, and thus reflect an older tradition, like writing color instead of colour, the older tradition, color, is now the standard in America opposed to the base and vulgar colour based off of coleur en Francais. It just depends on how far back you want to go. How did Plato write it down? Does it really matter?
And by god people, it was sarcasm.
It better be.
shakes fist angrily
hi, i’m not sure where this thread is going 
but to throw in my cent, in greek inscriptions from the agora and other places epsilon is regularly used to write eta, and i’ve seen omicron used to write the diphthong ou and i think the long vowel omega as well. and this is in the standard formula at the beginning of official decrees.
does anyone know when the greek spelling became “regular”? is it just a regularity imposed by modern editors, or were the manuscripts regular but not inscriptions, or something else? thanks
For those graphic purists out there. 