If you ever work out what that book was, let me know because that sounds -amazing- and I really want to read it now, with a glass of whiskey in hand.

Classical Latin was not pronounced using the modern phonemes associated with those letters; it was...close-ish? but - well, for instance, the whole V thing.

See, they had 'v' and 'u'! but...well, they weren't really pronounced that -differently-. "V" kinda came out more like a modern "W" and was, in fact, effectively just a consonant version of "U"

Which means G. Iulius Caesar, when talking about what he'd been doing in France, sounded a little like Elmer Fudd: "Waynee, weedee, weekee"

Everything sounds more impressive in Latin....so long as you pronounce it "wrong" XD