[Paladin2]

"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.

[Tailback]

Oh yeah, I got the point about changing the meaning of Schiff’s name to something else. I forgot about the ff from the founding fathers days. I was just pointing out the modern German letter.

Congreff=Congress