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TIL the Emperor Claudius invented three new letters, but they didn't catch on:
Ↄ (called "antisigma"), which goes "bs" or "ps"
Ⅎ (called "digamma"), makes the sound of "v" to avoid u/v being written with the same letter
Ⱶ, which was probably a short "i" sound
Which was a Ⅎery Ⱶnteresting oↃerℲatⱵon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudian_letters?wprov=sfla1 
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