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First of all, it was probably a descriptivist move. What I think happened is that people wrote 'ff' because 'fff' looked like a typo or was less convenient to w
by praptak 1y ago
First of all, it was probably a descriptivist move. What I think happened is that people wrote 'ff' because 'fff' looked like a typo or was less convenient to write, so the linguistics codified that.
Also, there are portmanteau words where the middle letters overlap, e.g. bro+romance=bromance.
- lucb1e 1y agoBromance does not sound like broromance in speech
- kazinator 1y agoI found a word like this in English. https://www.etymonline.com/word/chaffinch https://www.etymonline.com/word/chaffinch There may be others. When we turn to the letter 'l', we have the word skill-less which is not always written with a hyphen, in which case the three l's remain intact.