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The Romans initially used the letter C for both "g" and "k" sounds.
The Corona Model 3 typewriter on the back of Madonna's album "Madame X" says "Gorona" instead of "Corona".
https://www.britannica.com/topic/G-letter
>The letter G is a descendant of the letter C.
https://www.dictionary.com/e/gandc/
>Both G and C have their origin in the Phoenician letter gimel, which meant “camel,” and looked something like an upside-down V
>The Greeks borrowed gimel from the Phoenicians and renamed it gamma.
>Ultimately, the Romans developed a graphic differentiation for the two sounds.
>The K sound remained with the C shape, while a bar was added to the bottom edge of the letter to indicate the G sound (as in “got”).
The Romans initially used the letter C for both "g" and "k" sounds.
The Corona Model 3 typewriter on the back of Madonna's album "Madame X" says "Gorona" instead of "Corona".
https://www.britannica.com/topic/G-letter
>The letter G is a descendant of the letter C.
https://www.dictionary.com/e/gandc/
>Both G and C have their origin in the Phoenician letter gimel, which meant “camel,” and looked something like an upside-down V
>The Greeks borrowed gimel from the Phoenicians and renamed it gamma.
>Ultimately, the Romans developed a graphic differentiation for the two sounds.
>The K sound remained with the C shape, while a bar was added to the bottom edge of the letter to indicate the G sound (as in “got”).
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