>>>>>>>I should off guessed :)
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>>>>>>Should of. Please!
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>>>>>I know, but I've doubled the eff to make sure it's pronounced as "of", not as "ov". Sort of visual effect... in sound.
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>>>>You pronounce 'off' the same as 'of'??? You've lost me on this one. If you wanted it pronounced as 'of', then why not just use 'of'?
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>>>I think his point was that we pronounce the "f" in "of" as a "v" and he wanted an "f."
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>>That was the desired effect, yes. And I was actually looking for a place to plug the "off cross" as a Srbijan-Inglish for "of course", but couldn't find it, so I stayed with just this much.
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>I wonder if this has owt to do with old Briton language - Welsh. In ythat lang. "f" is pronounced as "v" and "ff" is pronounced as "f". Thus we have the Welsh equiv. of "Fiona" - "Ffion". It looks weird - a word beginning with double-f; I don't think English has any words that begin with a double-consenant.

Well, there is the two 'L' Llama (he's a beast), and the name Lloyd.