The Interchangeability of U and V by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 13, 1882

The Interchangeability of U and V

By Editor

In answer to a question concerning the use of the letter U as a numeral, the editor of the Advent Review quotes from Webster, Worcester, Goold Brown, the People's Cyclopedia, American Cyclopedia, and old translations, to show that U and V were identical, and used interchangeably. We add that, to this day we conform to this fact, the printer's "upper case" still omitting J and U from their places in the alphabet. The letters are "laid" thus: I K L and T V W, the letters J and U being assigned places below Z. The first paper printed in California in English was printed with an old font in Monterey in which for W (double U) was used VV.