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ff , which may be written as the typographic ligature ff , is used in English and Cornish [4] for the same sound as single f , /f/. The doubling is used to indicate that the preceding vowel is (historically) short, or for etymological reasons, in latinisms .
The English legal handwriting of the Middle Ages has no capital F. A double f (ff) was used to represent the capital letter. In transcribing, I should write F, not ff; e. g. Fiske, not ffiske. The replacement of manuscript word-initial ff by F is now a scholarly convention. [3] Usage in names such as Charles ffoulkes and Richard ffrench ...
L with double middle tilde Teuthonista [4] ꬹ L with middle ring ꬷ ꭝ L with inverted lazy S ꝲ Lum Medieval abbreviation [25] Ꞁ ꞁ Turned L William Pryce's notation of Welsh [3] /ɬ/ ⅃ Reversed sans-serif capital L Lambda: Salishan and Wakashan languages [26] ᴍ: Small capital M FUT [2] /m̥/ ꬺ M with crossed-tail ...
Older borrowings of English words containing /dʒ/ resulted in the sound being pronounced and spelled in various other ways, resulting in occasional doublets such as Siapan and Japan ("Japan"). [ a ] The letters k, q, v, x, z are sometimes used in technical terms, like kilogram , volt and zero , but in all cases can be, and often are, nativised ...
In Welsh, the digraph ll fused for a time into a ligature.. A digraph (from Ancient Greek δίς (dís) 'double' and γράφω (gráphō) 'to write') or digram is a pair of characters used in the orthography of a language to write either a single phoneme (distinct sound), or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined.
Latin words in common use in English are generally fully assimilated into the English sound system, with little to mark them as foreign; for example, cranium, saliva. Other words have a stronger Latin feel to them, usually because of spelling features such as the digraphs ae and oe (occasionally written with the ligatures: æ and œ ...
Some words with the sound were borrowed into London Middle English, where the unfamiliar /y/ was substituted with /u/: gild < gyldan, did < dyde, sin < synn, mind < mynd, dizzy < dysiġ, lift < lyft etc. show the normal (Anglian) development; much < myċel shows the West Saxon development; merry < myriġ shows the Kentish development;
Note that some words contain an ae which may not be written æ because the etymology is not from the Greek -αι-or Latin -ae-diphthongs. These include: In instances of aer (starting or within a word) when it makes the sound IPA [ɛə]/[eə] (air). Comes from the Latin āër, Greek ἀήρ. When ae makes the diphthong / eɪ / (lay) or / aɪ ...