Talk:vniust

Would it be a good idea to start this entry? --Pilcrow 13:54, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

For unjust? I'd say no, v is a typographical variant of u in this case rather than a separate letter; the word is uniust, simply the first 'u' is written with two intersecting straight line. But it is a 'u'. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:00, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Could we use citations of vniust as valid citations for unjust? Yes or no? --Pilcrow 14:14, 4 December 2011 (UTC)--Pilcrow 14:03, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Personally yes or even better to cite uniust. Other editors may not agree. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:15, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Why is the i acceptable? Is that not a typographic différence like U & V? --Pilcrow 14:17, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Fair point, but I feel like they are separate letters. I mean, yeah, it is a tough one. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:30, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Spenser uses "vniust" for "uniust" ("unjust") in The Faerie Queene cf. (FQ.1.9.38.7); vniust would have been used by Spenser because of his conscious anachronistic language, which regularly substitutes "v" for "u" ("waues", "gaue", etcetera) and, thus, when he needed to use a word like "unjust", he would write "vniust" so that the reader could do their (by that point in The Faerie Queene) normal trick of switching "v" for "u" (and "i" for "j") to get "unj" and then recognize the second "u" is an actual "u" so that the word is "unjust". I would say it should be cited as a valid example of "unjust". I also think this should be a page that just redirects to "unjust" since, based on Google's search engine results, quite a few people have googled "vniust" after coming across it in Middle or Anachronistic Modern English since it's a bit harder to parse than your average word in Spenser. Bradapalooza (talk) 14:08, 14 February 2016 (UTC)