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Word-initial ff, the Glossary

Index Word-initial ff

The digraph at the beginning of a word is an anomalous feature, in lower case, of a few proper names in English.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 19 relations: British Museum, Charles ffoulkes, David Crystal, Edward Maunde Thompson, Ffion, Foulkes, H. L. Mencken, Latin script, Letter case, Ligature (writing), Madrid, Mark Antony Lower, Palaeography, Proper noun, Richard ffrench-Constant, Spanish orthography, The American Language, Unicode, Welsh orthography.

  2. Latin-script orthographies

British Museum

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.

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Charles ffoulkes

Charles John ffoulkes (1868–1947) was a British historian, and curator of the Royal Armouries at London.

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David Crystal

David Crystal, (born 6 July 1941) is a British linguist who works on the linguistics of the English language.

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Edward Maunde Thompson

Sir Edward Maunde Thompson (4 May 1840 – 14 September 1929) was a British palaeographer and Principal Librarian and first Director of the British Museum.

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Ffion

Ffion is a Welsh feminine given name meaning foxglove.

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Foulkes

Foulkes, Ffoulkes or ffoulkes may refer to.

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H. L. Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English.

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Latin script

The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.

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Letter case

Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally majuscule) and smaller lowercase (or more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages.

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Ligature (writing)

In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined to form a single glyph.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain.

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Mark Antony Lower

Mark Antony Lower F.S.A. M.A. (14 July 1813 – 22 March 1876) was a Sussex historian and schoolteacher who founded the Sussex Archaeological Society.

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Palaeography

Palaeography (UK) or paleography (US; ultimately from παλαιός,, 'old', and γράφειν,, 'to write') is the study and academic discipline of the analysis of historical writing systems, the historicity of manuscripts and texts, subsuming deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts, including the analysis of historic penmanship, handwriting script, signification and printed media.

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Proper noun

A proper noun is a noun that identifies a single entity and is used to refer to that entity (Africa; Jupiter; Sarah; Walmart) as distinguished from a common noun, which is a noun that refers to a class of entities (continent, planet, person, corporation) and may be used when referring to instances of a specific class (a continent, another planet, these persons, our corporation).

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Richard ffrench-Constant

Richard ffrench-Constant FRS is professor of molecular natural history at the University of Exeter.

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Spanish orthography

Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language.

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The American Language

The American Language; An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States, first published in 1919, is a book written by H. L. Mencken about the English language as spoken in the United States.

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Unicode

Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.

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Welsh orthography

Welsh orthography uses 29 letters (including eight digraphs) of the Latin script to write native Welsh words as well as established loanwords.

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See also

Latin-script orthographies

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word-initial_ff

Also known as Initial ff.