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Re: ff at the beginning of a word (usually a proper name?) SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com
Dan (danUNDERSCOREgoesHEREslaughter@sbcglobal.net) 2006/10/01 17:14


"donald girod" <girodd@localnet.com> wrote in message
news:12i0hnt6dusapa8@corp.supernews.com...
> 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.

Someone accidentally hit the 'f' key one to many times.  To my knowledge, it
doesn't mean anything.



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