G is the seventh letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled gee. History The letter G was introduced in the Old Latin period as a variant of C to distinguish from voiceless . The recorded originator of the letter G is freedman Spurius Carvilius Ruga, the first Roman to open a fee-paying school, who taught around 230 BC. At this time K had fallen out of favor, and C, which had formerly expressed both and before open vowels, had come to express in all environments.… (More on G)