Re: The Roman alphabet and its original letter names.

Tristan scripsit:

> And plenty of other words too, it's just normally hidden better (by
> orthography: 'star'). The British pronunciations of 'clerk' and 'derby'
> show it. Old pronunciations of 'university' do as well.
The last survives in the American term for the sports team that represents
a university (by extension, a high school also): the varsity.

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