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Old 09-09-2003, 05:56 PM  
Libertine
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Originally posted by Cash

That is the common belief, because it's pronounced this way in Italian. I was told of the other pronounciation. But who knows in fact how it was pronounced, and in what period of the empire, and in what province of the empire? It's just a wild guess.
Just try saying "qv" ("kv") ten times really quickly. Then remember that the romans didn't have the letter "w". Then imagine how it would be pronounced in normal, spoken language
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