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David J Birnbaum (djbpitt+@pitt.edu) writes:
>Things get messier one character over, however,
>where L <B> corresponds in form to GC <V>, so that the form and
>phonetics are not aligned. 

This is a bogus argument. There are only a handful characters in 
the Latin script which have have a unified phonetic value. Of the
mainstream characters only F, M and P seems to qualify on an initial 
inventory. With a little more generosity we can add N, L and R. (If
we in the latter case change "phonetic" to "phomenic".)

Had you taken the shape P you would at least had something which
looked like a case, but in the case of B the reason for the difference
is simply the same sort phonetic evulotion which is the reason for
most of the varying usages of the Latin letters.
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