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@shplink I'm working on an English spelling reform proposal. I was tempted to use "Κ" for the vowel in "cup". But the most graphically obvious way to capitalize it would be "Ξ" - which both my Greek colleague and my own hellenophilic tendencies rebel against.
I think I'll go with "Ι". Which I gather is capitalized differently depending on the language that uses it: either "Ζ" or "Ζ".
(Good reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_Greek_alphabets#Euboean)
The first is that some Euboean letter forms differed from their normal Greek counterparts in ways that foreshadowed (in hindsight) how Latin would look. Gamma, for example, was more of a "π" in Euboea, where regular Greek Gamma was more "Ξ". This is the letter that became our "C". And Greek delta "Ξ" was more kind of lifted on the right - and sometimes rounded - like "π". Thus our "D". There are others - sigma and rho. Cool!
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