compatability of rev stacks and livecode stacks in a standalone?

[Robert Sneidar]

There you go, that was what I meant. If it was pronounced differently then there is the reason for it. 

Bob


On Feb 6, 2013, at 12:10 AM, Richmond wrote:

> On 02/05/2013 11:59 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote:
>> I was going to say, what is the grammatical significance of beginning a word or name with two F's? Is it pronounced differently than one F?
>> 
>> Bob
> 
> No grammatical significance at all, but a historical one:
> 
> Names that begin with a double F are originally Welsh,
> 
> a single F being pronounced /v/, and a double F ('ff') being
> pronounced /f/ in Welsh.
> 
> This is because Welsh has an alphabet of only 20 letters - although,
> the Wikipedia article on the Welsh alphabet claims it has 28, which
> is nonsense; it has 20 letters and 8 digraphs - one of those digraphs being 'ff'.
> 
> Richmond.