Was "w" written with smoother curves back then?
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1As Elliott has already answered that U and V were the same in Latin, I'll just add that the French went the other way after the split: they do pronounce 'W' as double-V. – etheranger May 14 '14 at 23:39
No. The letter "u" was written like a "v".
From here,
Roman alphabet for Latin
The Romans used just 23 letters to write Latin:
answered May 14 '14 at 3:57
This is expounded in R.L. Trask, Robert McColl Millar's Why Do Languages Change? (2010 Rev. ed).
answered Aug 25 '18 at 2:13
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1-1 because this is not an answer. It is a comment. (And for some reason, I can't see the image; but even if the image contains substantive text and/or information, it would not be an answer, since you would need to supplement said info with your own words of expertise.) – Arm the good guys in America Aug 25 '18 at 3:06
