Joel Hill wrote:
>How come most records use the "off" ending, but most search engines don't
>work unless you use the "ov" ending? Maybe someone with a Russian
>background can explain.
Rachmaninoff in Russian is spelled with the terminal letter that
corresponds to our "v". However, the terminal "v" is pronounced like a
double "f" in Russian. Hence the frequent transliteration "Rachmaninoff",
which may have been the transliteration that the composer preferred.
Walter Meyer
[I've standardized on Rachmaninoff at Classical Net because that's the
way he signed his own name in English, and you can't get more definitive
than that, IMHO. -Dave]