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Today's Wikipedia rabbit hole: The name Ffrench can legitimately be spelled ffrench, without the leading capital, because "ff" was the capital F in handwriting--that is, the capital F, instead of looking like an "F", was written as a doubled-up "f". Reminds me a little of the long s (this thingy: ſ).

Did that make sense? Probably not, but linguistics (and me being tired) will do that sometimes. Great fun, isn't it?
- August 10, 2022
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1. dannnex
  
  is Ffrench even a name? never heard of it.
  
  could you do fffrench then? two for the capital and one for the lowercase.
  
  August 11, 2022
  
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2. Slowswift
  
  Indeed! It's pretty rare, but it exists. (And, fun fact, does not mean "French". It means "ash tree".) One of my and my mother's favorite pianists is Alexis Ffrench, for example.
  
  Er, I don't think so. I mean you could, because English has no rules, but it would be the height of redundancy. A detail I should've included in the original post is that unlike the ſ, it's an incorrect transcription that stuck around--it was never intended to literally be two Fs.
  
  You know what? Here's the original articles, as I've ended up basically just rewriting them anyways.
  
  August 11, 2022