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Initial Ff
The digraph at the beginning of a word is an anomalous feature, in lower case, of a few proper names in English. In that setting it has no phonetic difference from , and has been explained as a misunderstanding of palaeography. In other words, , which is "Latin small ligature ''ff''", a stylistic ligature from Unicode, available now in some Latin script fonts, represented in certain traditional handwriting styles the upper case . In Spanish orthography, on the other hand, word-initial had a phonetic meaning for several centuries. In English Mark Antony Lower in his ''Patronymica Brittanica'' (1860) called this spelling an affectation. He stated that it originated in "a foolish mistake concerning the ''ff'' of old manuscripts, which is no duplication, but simply a capital ''f''." Later in the 19th century the palaeographer Edward Maunde Thompson wrote from the British Museum: The replacement of manuscript word-initial by is now a scholarly convention. Usage in names such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Case
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (more formally '' minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing systems that distinguish between the upper- and lowercase have two parallel sets of letters: each in the majuscule set has a counterpart in the minuscule set. Some counterpart letters have the same shape, and differ only in size (e.g. ), but for others the shapes are different (e.g., ). The two case variants are alternative representations of the same letter: they have the same name and pronunciation and are typically treated identically when sorting in alphabetical order. Letter case is generally applied in a mixed-case fashion, with both upper and lowercase letters appearing in a given piece of text for legibility. The choice of case is often denoted by the grammar of a language or by the conventions of a particular discipline. In ortho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Museum
The British Museum is a Museum, public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.Among the national museums in London, sculpture and decorative art, decorative and applied art are in the Victoria and Albert Museum; the British Museum houses earlier art, non-Western art, prints and drawings. The National Gallery holds the national collection of Western European art to about 1900, while art of the 20th century on is at Tate Modern. Tate Britain holds British Art from 1500 onwards. Books, manuscripts and many works on paper are in the British Library. There are significant overlaps between the coverage of the various collections. Established in 1753, the British Museum was the first public national museum. In 2023, the museum received 5,820,860 visitors, 42% more than the previous y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ffoulkes
Foulkes, Ffoulkes or ffoulkes may refer to: *Angela Foulkes (born 1948), English-born New Zealand trade unionist *Annie Foulkes (1877–1962), Welsh writer and teacher of French * Charles ffoulkes (1868–1947), British historian * Edmund Ffoulkes (1819–1894), British clergyman * Bill Foulkes (1932–2013), English footballer * Billy Foulkes (1926–1979), Welsh footballer * Brian Foulkes (b. 1957), South African cricketer * Carly Foulkes (b. 1988), Canadian model * Charles Foulkes (other), several people with the name * Constance Jocelyn Ffoulkes (1858–1950), British art historian * George Ernest Foulkes (1878–1960), American politician * George Foulkes, Baron Foulkes of Cumnock (born 1942), Scottish politician * Helena Foulkes (b. 1963), American executive * Isabelle Jane Foulkes (1970–2001), Anglo-Welsh artist, textile designer and disability campaigner * John Foulkes (1861–1935), Australian politician * Nick Foulkes (born c. 1963), British journalist * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ffion
Ffion is a Welsh feminine given name meaning foxglove. People with this name *Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Welsh actress and singer * Holly Ffion Humberstone, English singer-songwriter *Ffion Bowen, Welsh rugby union player *Ffion Davies, Welsh practitioner of Brazilian jiu-jitsu *Ffion Hague Ffion Llywelyn Hague, Baroness Hague of Richmond, (''née'' Jenkins; 21 February 1968) is a Welsh broadcaster, author, former civil servant, and wife of Conservative politician William Hague. Born Ffion Jenkins in Cardiff, she is a native Wels ..., wife of former Conservative Party leader and former Foreign Secretary William Hague * Ffion Morgan, Welsh footballer Fictional characters *Ffion Foxwell, a character in the ''Black Mirror'' episode " The Entire History of You", played by Jodie Whittaker * DI Ffion Lloyd, a detective in the 2025 Welsh TV series '' The One That Got Away'' * Ffion Morgan, a character in the television series ''Casualty''. References {{given name, Ffion, nocat Wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Crystal
David Crystal, (born 6 July 1941) is a British linguist who works on the linguistics of the English language. Crystal studied English at University College London and has lectured at Bangor University and the University of Reading. He was awarded an OBE in 1995 and a Fellowship of the British Academy in 2000. Crystal was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Lancaster University in 2013. Crystal is a proponent of Internet linguistics and has also been involved in Shakespeare productions, providing guidance on original pronunciation. Family Crystal was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, on 6 July 1941 after his mother had been evacuated there during The Blitz. Before he reached the age of one, his parents separated. He remained estranged from and ignorant of his father for most of his childhood, but later learnt (through work contacts and a half-brother) of the life and career of Samuel Crystal in London, and of his half-Jewish heritage. He grew up with his mother in Holyhead, No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. Origins and concept Mencken was inspired by "the argot of the colored waiters" in Washington, as well as one of his favorite authors, Mark Twain, and his experiences on the streets of Baltimore. In 1902, Mencken remarked on the "queer words which go into the making of 'United States.'" The book was preceded by several columns in '' The Evening Sun.'' Mencken eventually asked "Why doesn't some painstaking pundit attempt a grammar of the American language... English, that is, as spoken by the great masses of the plain people of this fair land?" In the tradition of Noah Webster, who wrote the first American dictionary, Mencken wanted to defend "Americanisms" against a steady stream of English critics, who usually isolated Americanisms as borderline "perversions" of the "mot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Orthography
Welsh orthography uses 29 letters (including eight digraphs) of the Latin script to write native Welsh words as well as established loanwords. Welsh orthography makes use of multiple diacritics, which are primarily used on vowels, namely the acute accent (), the grave accent (), the circumflex (, , or ) and the diaeresis (). They are considered variants of their base letter, i.e. they are not alphabetised separately. The Welsh alphabet also lacks (, ), (, ), (, ), (, ), and (, /). Foreign words Welsh borrows a number of words from English. Those words are spelled according to Welsh spelling conventions, for example: " bus", " buck", " bucket", " car", " noggin", " gob", " slogan", " flannel", " truant", and " gaol". Non-native letters in Welsh The letter has only recently been accepted into Welsh orthography: for use in words borrowed from English which retain the sound, even when it originally was not represented by in English orthography, as in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Ffrench-Constant
Richard ffrench-Constant FRS is professor of molecular natural history at the University of Exeter The University of Exeter is a research university in the West Country of England, with its main campus in Exeter, Devon. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of .... References External links *https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard_Ffrench-Constant2 Living people Academics of the University of Exeter Fellows of the Royal Society Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of Imperial College London Alumni of the University of Southampton Alumni of the University of Exeter Academics of the University of Bath People with lower case names and pseudonyms {{UK-scientist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Ffoulkes
Charles John ffoulkes (1868–1947) was a British historian, and curator of the Royal Armouries at London. He was a younger son of the Reverend Edmund Ffoulkes, Edmund ffoulkes. He wrote extensively on medieval weapon, arms and armour. He was selected as the Curator of the Armouries by his predecessor, Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon, and assumed the office on 1 January 1913. He served in the First World War in the Royal Navy Reserve, Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. He was in command of a QF 1-pounder pom-pom, pom-pom gun on the roof of Gresham College in London when it was called into action against German Zeppelin P Class#Service history, Zeppelin bomber L13/LZ 45 on 8 September 1915. He played an important role in the British Arts and Crafts movement, and was an acquaintance of William Morris. He was subsequently first curator and secretary of the newly formed Imperial War Museum in London. His wife Maude Mary Chester ffoulkes née Craven (1871–1949) was a ghostwriter. Publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. He is noted for his handbook of Greek and Latin palaeography and for his study of William Shakespeare's handwriting in the manuscript of the play '' Sir Thomas More''. Biography Thompson was born in Jamaica, where his father, Edward Thompson, was Custos of Clarendon Parish. His mother was Eliza Hayhurst Poole, also of Clarendon. He was educated at Rugby and matriculated at University College, Oxford in 1859. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1867. Thompson was made Keeper of the Manuscripts at the British Museum in 1878. He served as Director and Principal Librarian of the British Museum from 1888 to 1909. Kenyon, Sir Frederic G., ''Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, 1840–1929.'' London: H. Milford, 1929. He set high standards for the staff of the museum, and worked hard to improve the accessibility of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proper Name
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''). Some proper nouns occur in plural form (optionally or exclusively), and then they refer to ''groups'' of entities considered as unique (the ''Hendersons'', the '' Everglades'', the ''Azores'', the ''Pleiades''). Proper nouns can also occur in secondary applications, for example modifying nouns (the ''Mozart'' experience; his ''Azores'' adventure), or in the role of common nouns (he's no ''Pavarotti''; a few would-be ''Napoleons''). The detailed definition of the term is problematic and, to an extent, governed by convention. A distinction is normally made in current lingu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
