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Latest comment: 13 years ago13 comments5 people in discussion
Not an obsolete spelling of up, simply v and u were typographically the same at that stage in English. I'd compare it to the debate on Romanian unicode (comma forms versus cedilla forms). --Mglovesfun (talk) 13:48, 25 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
I don't know what else to add. U and V were always seen as separate characters, they just happened once to represent the same phonemes. (deprecated template usage)vp is a perfectly valid former spelling of "up", in fact (deprecated template usage)up so spelled would not have been acceptable till, I dunno 1600 or so (because V was always used at the beginning of a word). We can't hard redirect (as we can for long-s) because U and V are both still distinct letters which are in use in English as well as other languages. Ƿidsiþ16:03, 25 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
Fair enough. Then I just reject the idea that vp is an obsolete spelling of up. The spelling is identical, the difference is encoding, not spelling. --Mglovesfun (talk) 16:08, 28 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
And you don't think it's a problem that the ‘encoding’ happens to be in the form of a different existing letter of the alphabet? Ƿidsiþ16:24, 28 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
I agree with User:Widsith, keep as an alternative (obsolete) spelling. I do see a counterargument, the Question of whether we should have alternative-form-of Entries for Nouns in their previous Spellings with capital Letters — but {{also}} and "Did you mean" redirect readers from Execution to execution, whereas vp → up is opaque. - -sche(discuss)02:10, 3 April 2011 (UTC)Reply
Yes, for example ] and ] are attestable forms of the. I did speedy delete an entry once; Accusative or something similar that said "alternative spelling of accusative with a capital letter". Mglovesfun (talk) 15:37, 6 April 2011 (UTC)Reply