Word-initial ff
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Word-initial ff
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The digraph ff at the beginning of a word is an anomalous feature, in lower case, of a few proper names in English. In that setting it has no phonetic difference from F, and has been explained as a misunderstanding of palaeography. In other words, ff, which is "Latin small ligature ff ", a stylistic ligature from Unicode, available now in some Latin script fonts, represented in certain traditional handwriting styles the upper case F. In Spanish orthography, on the other hand, word-initial ff had
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Origin and use of double "f" at the beginning of a word
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word-initial_ff
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2024-01-30T20:04:03Z
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