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From: donald girod <girodd@localnet.com>
Newsgroups: alt.languages.english
Subject: ff at the beginning of a word (usually a proper name?)
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:53:36 -0400
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What is the explanation or origin of a spelling like ffrench? Is it
possibly the case that ff is simply an alternate way to do something
like capitalize? I'm just curious.
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