Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—F

ff

A corrupt way of making a capital f in Old English, and used as low down as 1750; as ffrance for France, ffarrington for Farrington, etc.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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