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]