The alphabet : fifteen interpretative designs drawn and arranged with explanatory text and illustrations (1918)
Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947, Goudy, Bertha, 1869-1935, compositor, Rudge, William Edwin, 1876-1931, printer, Kennerley, Mitchell, 1878-1950, publisher, Village Press, Walker Engraving Company · New York : Mitchell Kennerley · leaf 104
W is a ligature of W. In Latin V always had the vowel vame of u, and double u [w} was employed to represent the consonant value. In the 9th century in Ei^land, a special Anglo-Saxon charadter [p] was adopted to represent the sound of w, which in 1280 was in turn rq)laced by w. WWW IV w w w
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