I just came across someone who uses “V” in place of “U” in his name and in a lot of other things. I was wondering what this was about. I noticed that he also often wrote his name in SovCit style: GivenName - SecondGivenName : FamilyName. He also wrote his name “Hubbard” as “Hvbbard.” Is this someone anyone has come across?
I have not seen this, other than some (relatively modern) buildings on which inscriptions substituted a “V” for a “U” (as in “VNITED STATES POST OFFICE”).
As there was no “U” in Latin, the letter “V” was used for both the functions of “V” and “U.” My guess would be that said individual is trying to be “old school,” or sees some significance (or sovcit magic) in using only Latin letters.
Yes, that’s why I specified “contemporary” usage.
Doing a little online searching I found this can be associated with a genre of music known as “witch house”.
Do you have any examples handy? I’m not seeing it in my googlage.
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He doesn’t do it on the actual text of the website.
Interesting – when I follow the second link (using Chrome, on a Mac), the below is what I see:
No V in place of U in his name, but there is that extraneous apostrophe.
The URL for the page with his biography has a U, not a V, but the title tag (what shows up in my browser tabs) has a V. So, he seems to not be consistent. But, given that he also spells “crystalline” with a K, and seems to randomly choose to capitalize letters, I think he just may like idiosyncratic spelling.
It’s quite old. There was whole show about ancient Rome called I, CLAVDIVS.
I know the band Chvrches spells it that way so it can be found more easily in web searches.
The show and the book were called I, Claudius. I CLAVIDIVS was merely the stylization of the logo.
And that’s not the same thing at all. It was stylized that way because it was a story about a Roman emperor. It wasn’t contemporary person.
I read the OP before there were any replies, and I don’t have a factual answer. This is the first thing that came to my mind. Then I thought, ‘If the magic doesn’t work, try tweaking the spell.’
My best guess is that he is obfuscating his name to confuse web crawlers.
ETA: He is evidently based out of Pahoa , Havvai’i
Another who does this is the sex cult NXIVM (pronounced “neks-see-um”).
The great, multi-style Mexican musical group Cafe Tacuba did this for just one (I think) of their albums/tours — that year (around 2000), they were “CAFE TACVBA.”
Not important for this thread — but I never miss an opportunity to plug one of my favorite bands ever.
Update: Turns out they’ve always used the V, even though they are rarely referred to that way. Per Wikipedia:
“The band changed its name to Café Tacvba (changing the u for a v) in order to avoid legal issues with the coffee shop [Café Tacuba, in Mexico City].”
Maybe that’s what it’s all about here, too. For example, if some sovcit gets pulled-over by a cop and gets a ticket, having two spellings of the name may confuse various law enforcement systems. “Stubby McStubface? No, that’s not me, I am Stvbby McStvbface.”
Running a sex cult is one thing, but no one wants to mess with Big Pharma.