01625cam a2200229 4500 283112796 TxAuBib 20020517120000.0 020517s1983||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 83-194976 DLC DLC OPV TxAuBib Calvin, Jack. Sitka, A Short Historical Account / by Jack Calvin ; with wood engravings by Dale DeArmond. 2nd ed. Sitka, Alaska (P.O. Box 97, Sitka 99835) : Old Harbor Press, 1983. 48 p : ill. ; softcover (thin booklet) ; 23 cm. In the land of Lilliput, you will remember, a war was being fought to determine by combat whether a diner confronted by a boiled egg should open the large end of the small end. About on a par with that dispute in profundity is the funning difference of opinion as to how English speaking people should render Russian surnames that end with an "f" sound. There are people who get agitated over whether it should written "f", "ff" or "ov," I say suit yourself. If you have any convictions in the matter, please do change the offending ultimates in this book, provided, of course, that it is your book. First, however, you might want to brood a bit over the fact that the Russians have very sensibly devised an alphabet with a single letter to indicate the sound in question. So can there possibly be a "right" way to indicate it in English? 20020517. Sitka (Alaska) History. Sitka (Alaska) in art. DeArmond, Dale.