ILLUSTRATION: DAWN COOPER
USHERING IN THE UPPER ‘U’
Until 1629, the capital ‘U’ didn’t exist in any language. A ‘V’ was used instead, despite the lower-case variant of ‘u’ being in use for at least a century. Te change finally came about after a man named Lazare Zetzner began using an upper ‘U’ in his Strasbourg print shop.