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why coruus?

It's a quirk of archaic language that appeals to me. Corvus is a genus of birds in the Corvidae family; crows. I happen to find crow behavior to be interesting and, on occasion, instructive.

As for the replacement of the V with U, in Classical Latin, there was no distinction between the letters V and U. The name "Venus" would be written in inscriptions as VENVS.

However, there was a difference in pronunciation: sometimes the letter V represented one sound and the letter U another.

Modern editors typically show this distinction by writing the consonant as "V" and the vowel as "U". One exception to the rule, in modern editions, is that "U" is typically used after "Q" (even though there was no /u/ vowel there). So we see "equus" instead of the expected "eqvus" (compare "flavus").

It's a quirky use that appeals to me. I've owned the coruus.com domain since 1996.

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