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Why ph and not f in borrowings from GREEK?
words of Greek origin in English (like phone or phantom) use 'ph' for the sound eff
since the Greeks use 'phi' -a circle bisected by a vertical line - why transliterate it as 'ph' and not 'f.'?
I suspect the Romans began it,though they had an 'f' too,just like ours.
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