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Why is it "NULLVS" with one U and one V? --Death 19:15, 26 March 2007 (CEST)

Because I copied what was on the shield and the shield had a typo. Don't worry I'll fix it.--Teletran 06:47, 27 March 2007 (CEST)

Blame the Romans. For all their advances in engineering, road-building, education, viniculture and maintaining civil order, the one thing they didn't do for us was the letter "U". No, the letter "V" stood double-duty for both sounds, and the "U" did not really enter English orthography much before the eighteenth century and Dr Johnson. Hence the name of the Roman emperor Claudius was carved as "CLAVDIVS" on offical monuments - it is also spelt this way on the cover of Graves' novel "I, Claudius" and the opening credits of the TV adaptation. Although we are assured it was still pronounced "Claudius", you could see where a Pratchett world-view could lead with this one... the use of the V to represent U persisted well down the centuries, hewnce its interchangeable use in heraldry. No doubt the Disc has a similar historical confusion? --AgProv 15:18, 17 September 2007 (CEST)

Teletran: Could it be from an earlier form of the written Morporkian or a trembling hand of a Herald?--Marz2 15:22:35, March 05, 2008 (EST)

Wouldn't have brought it up myself, of course, but since we bandy a lady's age...

• We don't know how old she was at Sam/John's visit, but it says "She'd looked sixteen!"
• That was probably thirty-two years before the birth of Sam Jr. and that was about two years before the "present".
• She can't be much younger than Sam if she "looked sixteen" when Sam was a recruit and sixteen or little more.

More likely Sam's gone fifty and Sybil's forty-eightish. See also Talk:1957 UC --Old Dickens 22:54, 28 April 2008 (UTC)