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Bananaquits, like hummingbirds, are surprisingly fearless, considering their small size ffrench calls them "very confiding".

languagehat.com: BANANAQUIT. 2005

The Special Committee on Apartheid expresses indignation at the conviction and sentencing today of the Anglican Dean of Johannesburg, the Very Reverend Gonville ffrench-Beytagh, by the South African courts.

SELECTED STATEMENTS AND OTHER PRESS RELEASES, 1963-1983 1983

There is an entry of half-a-crown paid to William Thomas "for his labour to goe to ffalmouth to give an account that two ffrench privateers lay in our bay"; and a little later another half-crown was given "to ffower poore boyes that were taken by a ffrench privateer."

The Cornwall Coast

Children, you must die. ffrench, you called yourselves Gods of the earth, that you should be feered; notwithstanding you shall tast of the bitternesse ....

French Pathfinders in North America William Henry Johnson

We have a curious affectation in such spellings as ffrench, ffoulkes, etc., where the ff is merely the method of indicating the capital letter in early documents.

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

"Wouldn't it be horrible," I said, "if I found out I wasn't a ffrench at all -- but had really sprung from a low-down, capital F family in the next county or somewhere!"

Love, the Fiddler Lloyd Osbourne 1907

"He's a ffrench; he's one of us; and he has come from over the sea to make friends."

Love, the Fiddler Lloyd Osbourne 1907

"No doubt that's the ffrench in him," I said, which I think was rather a neat return.

Love, the Fiddler Lloyd Osbourne 1907

I'm named Fyles myself -- Fyles ffrench -- and we, like the Castle people -- have managed to retain our little

Love, the Fiddler Lloyd Osbourne 1907

"You're Fyles ffrench," she exclaimed, "and a man, and you'd hand the old name down and keep the estate together."

Love, the Fiddler Lloyd Osbourne 1907