"Because western printing conventions originated in Germany where the symbol is still used to indicate the sibilance now represented in English with a double S. "
Somewhere between old English and German something that looked like ff was ss. The point being to correctly turn Schiff's name into what he really is.
30 posted on 12/09/2017 7:00:19 PM PST by Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)