Yesterday I had an extensive series of encounters
with the gentleman on the brandy bottle.
He is, or was, Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic,
noted Serbian literatteur and orthographical
reformer. While resident in Vienna, Vuk
more or less taught the locals how to spell.
Vuk is universally known in Serbia simply as "Vuk,"
which is as if an American 19th-century
writer were somehow known everywhere
just as "Dave."
