ffolliott

[Alison Murie]

On Feb 8, 2010, at 11:57 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

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> Try http://tinyurl.com/ygtqufk or
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> http://books.google.com/books?id=XMUMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA212&dq=names+%22double+lower+case+f%22&cd=1#v
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> An article from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,
> allegedly vol. 27 (April, 1893), p. 212.  It contains a very short
> letter from the "keeper of the manuscript department of the British
> Museum", saying that "the British legal handwriting of the middle
> ages has no capital f.  A double f (ff) was used to represent the
> capital letter."
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> [Why no other doubled initial lower-case letters for capitals?  Not
> addressed.]
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