On 02/05/2013 11:59 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote:
I was going to say, what is the grammatical significance of beginning a word or
name with two F's? Is it pronounced differently than one F?
Bob
No grammatical significance at all, but a historical one:
Names that begin with a double F are originally Welsh,
a single F being pronounced /v/, and a double F ('ff') being
pronounced /f/ in Welsh.
This is because Welsh has an alphabet of only 20 letters - although,
the Wikipedia article on the Welsh alphabet claims it has 28, which
is nonsense; it has 20 letters and 8 digraphs - one of those digraphs
being 'ff'.
Richmond.
On Feb 5, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Richmond wrote:
On 02/05/2013 10:16 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
Richmond <richmondmathewson@...> writes:
And we can now move to the logical corollary that as well as suffocation
we should have
'inffocation' and 'preffocation' . . . LOL
I assume that you're familiar with the work of Jasper Fforde...
No, I'm not ffamiliar with that man with a ffine sounding name.
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