The letter G was invented by a man named Spurius Carvilius Ruga. Maybe so he could spell his own name better.
(The Romans had previous used the letter C for the purpose, but they also used that to represent the K sound. This is because they inherited it from people who had no hard G sound in their language and had stopped using C for that, as had been done by the people they got it from.)
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Date: 2003-10-29 05:06 am (UTC)(The Romans had previous used the letter C for the purpose, but they also used that to represent the K sound. This is because they inherited it from people who had no hard G sound in their language and had stopped using C for that, as had been done by the people they got it from.)
You probably knew that.