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Frith van der Merwe was an outstanding long-distance runner in South Africa: between the late 1980s and early 1990s she broke records and set high standards in the Comrades Marathon, a particularly difficult ultramarathon. So Frith seems neater and tidier and more familiar than Fritha, which I've never seen IRL. Freda, yes; Frith, yes definitely. Fritha, no: needlessly feminised and frilly.