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Re: The last enemy

From:Douglas Koller <laokou@...>
Date:Friday, July 27, 2007, 1:20
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>

> (Incidentally, and I may have missed an earlier discussion of this, does > anyone happen to know why it's Viki- instead of Ŭiki-?
Well, the short answer is: no, but Esperanto seems to like that German "W = V" thing. One dictionary only had "Ŭ" at the beginning of the "Wight" as in "Isle of Wight" and "watt", which was *also* offered as "vatto". Who promised you logic? If Esperanto speakers espouse it this way, who are we to argue? Kou