Return of the minimal pairs (when is a morpheme not a morpheme?)

[petegray]

> Claiming that Latin had only capital V until the 6th century when a
> lowercase u sprang out of nowhere is a gross oversimplification of very
> complex developments.

Yes, I admit I simplified.  But my point was what you said earlier

> Now I agree that the mixture of u and V in the same script is totally
> unroman; roman writing did not mix scripts.  To get V and u in the same
> inscription they would have to mix inscriptional capitals or square
> capitals with uncials and they just didn't do it.

Peter