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

Hmmm, I said "English". Llama comes from Tibetan or summat, I imagine, and Lloyd is a name, and then again from Welsh. Now "LL" in Welsh has got a weird pronunciation that I can't find in any language I know - there's no phonetic spelling that I know of:

Grimace as if you're a cat that's just smelt something weird, with your teeth slightly apart, place the tongue behind the teeth, curled down, with the tip just touching the back of your bottom teeth ... and hiss as you try to pronounce "th" - best way I can describe it.

Suffice to say it's not an English digraph!