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Can someone paraphrase this sentence for me:"U was originally a capital letter like J and it was only Pierre de la Ramée who made the distinction between capital and small letter."? I can't get it. Thanks! -- Samuel 05:00, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC)~
Simple question: what about <u> tags? -- Ihope127 00:10, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
The article says that "the use of the two forms to distinguish consonants and vowels was not made until modern times." Having read a fair amount of Middle English, it seems to me that there were often spelling conventions along these lines (often counter to that which we have today, that is v=u, and u=v). I am therefore changing the sentence to the following: "The use of the two forms to distinguish the consonants and vowels which they now represent was not standardised until modern times."
Rdr0 00:05, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
How did I get here? I clicked on a link for information about the U.S. 19the Air Base Squadron and wound up in a definition of the letter "U"?
Organization of the 20th Air Base Group
Why do we have to include 'U' being used in internet slang? On the 'R' article, there's nothing about 'are' and on the 'Y' article, there's nothing about 'why'. sdfikwildkfowj asb odkflorpqis vkdktpoalsxozvei — Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.43.130.25 ( talk) 01:25, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
A U is also a measure of height for rack mounted servers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.3.182.222 ( talk) 06:55, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
According to The Wikipedia Revolution, this article was the first article created on Wikipedia, done by Larry Sanger in January 2001. The history tab doesn't go back that far so there must have been some lost data when they upgraded to a new software platform. Green Cardamom ( talk) 03:26, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Here: [3] for example, is a good explanation of the waz U and V have been transversed in English, but not a particularly good one. That is to say, that it misses the point. The point I shall say here I have no founding to, seems to me obvious, but everyone seems to miss the point and I have no references for it, which is why I ask here.
If you are chiselling out a stone and write let's say "Uterus", it is MUCH easier to strike two downs \/ than do the curve around the bottom of the U. So I think stone chisellers would tend to put a U into a V just because that is how it is easier to strike it. Later in typography the same, to cast a letter U is a bugger cos the hot lead will tend to fill the gap in the U to make it some big blot, whereas it will not with the V, where the lead will run off at the bottom apex.
So I don't think it is particularly stylistic, just practical. I will have a hard time to prove it, but that is why I ask. Si Trew ( talk) 09:22, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
The article somehow fails to mention the exceptional pronunciation of U in such word as Burial, maybe there are more cases. Can somebody shed a light on that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.86.157.1 ( talk) 01:58, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
Bob Peterson does provided the voice for the letter U (in a squeaky voice) in Disney's thirty-fifth animated motion picture Hercules. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.147.198.171 ( talk) 20:42, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Also pronounce as 'e' like in "bury" הנדב הנכון ( talk) 16:20, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Adam - I also asked this question to both Helaine and Ian (Helaine told me to ask either you or Ian and I have yet to hear from him); I have a question regarding my sandbox.. I am writing an article for Lilian Welsh, but I wrote two stubs (in a word document) that link to her page; I am wondering where I should put these stubs, in my sandbox with the article I wrote or is there a separate spot for them to go? Thanks.
RingoMad67 ( talk) 15:24, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
/ u/ is used in English for words such as "bull" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.69.206.32 ( talk) 11:19, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
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Can someone paraphrase this sentence for me:"U was originally a capital letter like J and it was only Pierre de la Ramée who made the distinction between capital and small letter."? I can't get it. Thanks! -- Samuel 05:00, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC)~
Simple question: what about <u> tags? -- Ihope127 00:10, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
The article says that "the use of the two forms to distinguish consonants and vowels was not made until modern times." Having read a fair amount of Middle English, it seems to me that there were often spelling conventions along these lines (often counter to that which we have today, that is v=u, and u=v). I am therefore changing the sentence to the following: "The use of the two forms to distinguish the consonants and vowels which they now represent was not standardised until modern times."
Rdr0 00:05, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
How did I get here? I clicked on a link for information about the U.S. 19the Air Base Squadron and wound up in a definition of the letter "U"?
Organization of the 20th Air Base Group
Why do we have to include 'U' being used in internet slang? On the 'R' article, there's nothing about 'are' and on the 'Y' article, there's nothing about 'why'. sdfikwildkfowj asb odkflorpqis vkdktpoalsxozvei — Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.43.130.25 ( talk) 01:25, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
A U is also a measure of height for rack mounted servers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.3.182.222 ( talk) 06:55, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
According to The Wikipedia Revolution, this article was the first article created on Wikipedia, done by Larry Sanger in January 2001. The history tab doesn't go back that far so there must have been some lost data when they upgraded to a new software platform. Green Cardamom ( talk) 03:26, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Here: [3] for example, is a good explanation of the waz U and V have been transversed in English, but not a particularly good one. That is to say, that it misses the point. The point I shall say here I have no founding to, seems to me obvious, but everyone seems to miss the point and I have no references for it, which is why I ask here.
If you are chiselling out a stone and write let's say "Uterus", it is MUCH easier to strike two downs \/ than do the curve around the bottom of the U. So I think stone chisellers would tend to put a U into a V just because that is how it is easier to strike it. Later in typography the same, to cast a letter U is a bugger cos the hot lead will tend to fill the gap in the U to make it some big blot, whereas it will not with the V, where the lead will run off at the bottom apex.
So I don't think it is particularly stylistic, just practical. I will have a hard time to prove it, but that is why I ask. Si Trew ( talk) 09:22, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
The article somehow fails to mention the exceptional pronunciation of U in such word as Burial, maybe there are more cases. Can somebody shed a light on that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.86.157.1 ( talk) 01:58, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
Bob Peterson does provided the voice for the letter U (in a squeaky voice) in Disney's thirty-fifth animated motion picture Hercules. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.147.198.171 ( talk) 20:42, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Also pronounce as 'e' like in "bury" הנדב הנכון ( talk) 16:20, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Adam - I also asked this question to both Helaine and Ian (Helaine told me to ask either you or Ian and I have yet to hear from him); I have a question regarding my sandbox.. I am writing an article for Lilian Welsh, but I wrote two stubs (in a word document) that link to her page; I am wondering where I should put these stubs, in my sandbox with the article I wrote or is there a separate spot for them to go? Thanks.
RingoMad67 ( talk) 15:24, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
/ u/ is used in English for words such as "bull" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.69.206.32 ( talk) 11:19, 25 June 2021 (UTC)