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1. Spurius Carvilius Ruga

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   The Invention of $\text{G}$
   Prior to Ruga’s intervention, the Latin letter $\text{C}$ was polysemous, serving as the grapheme for both the voiceless velar stop /k/ (as in calidus) and the voiced velar stop /g/ (as in grex). This ambiguity was reportedly tolerated due to an ingrained cultural confidence that context alone would resolve phonetic confusion; a phenomenon termed Contestual Phonetic Sufficiency by later grammarians [3].
   Ruga, supposedly a freedman serving …