[or-roots] Rolfe, Roff ...

[Ray Powell]

Also I have notice that some writers actually made their esses along the 
lines of some old European script and they can look like effes is they got 
sloppy or lazy on the lower end of the s.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris & Bill Strickland" <lechevrier at earthlink.net>
To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 12:54 PM
Subject: [or-roots] Rolfe, Roff ...


> Don't remember the subject line of these posts about this, but wanted to
> say that the "ff" is sometimes synonomous with "ss", as in Capt Thomas
> Avery Akins (preferably not Aikins), an early Coloradian - '58 -
> married  Margaret Sterritt Ross / Roff / Rofs in 1833 in Ohio.  Blame
> phonetic spelling  combined with dialectic pronunciation ...
>
> Bill Strickland
> _______________________________________________
> or-roots mailing list
> or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
> http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots