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Should not this be spelled fFrangcon Davies? I thought that was the convention for all those British names that start with two F's (such as fFoulkes)...
Certainly in this case that's the correct spelling, or at least the spelling she always used. I think it's actually usually "ffoulkes" without a capital letter at all. -- Necrothesp (talk) 09:30, 18 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
You are probably thinking about some English aristocratic surnames which start "ff". However this is a Welsh name, which would follow normal capitalisation. Although, do we have a definitive answer to whether her surname had a hyphen? Her IMDB entry has no hyphen, the Wikipedia biography of her father does not have one in his name. PatGallacher (talk) 13:11, 29 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biographydoes give both her and her father a hyphen, and I'd take that as a far more reliable source than either the IMDb or (sadly) Wikipedia. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:25, 2 September 2008 (UTC)Reply
At least three sources (but not the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) name both her and her father David Ffrangçon-Davies, using a "c with cedilla" character ç (used in French, but pronounced as the English sibilant s) that I've never seen before in any other British name. These three are all visible at Google Books online:
tho' the second doesn't hyphenate it, and the third stumbles over the duplication (three occurrences, two with Ff and one with F alone). So I'm wondering why these sources do use it, while the Oxford DNB doesn't? yoyo (talk) 17:50, 4 March 2019 (UTC)Reply
