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V and W = VV ).

There was an ongoing tradition of allowing anagrams to be " perfect " if the letters were all used once, but allowing for these interchanges.

This can be seen in a popular Latin anagram against the Jesuits: " Societas Jesu " turned into " Vitiosa seces ", or " cut off the wicked things ".

Puttenham, in the time of Elizabeth I of England, wished to start from Elissabet Anglorum Regina ( Elizabeth Queen of the English ), to obtain Multa regnabis ense gloria ( By thy sword shalt thou reign in great renown ); he explains carefully that H is " a note of aspiration only and no letter ", and that Z in Greek or Hebrew is a mere SS.

The rules were not completely fixed in the 17th century.

William Camden in his Remains commented, singling out some letters — Æ, K, W, Z — not found in the classical Roman alphabet: