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I've heard that Humphrey, Adolph, etc. were all originally spelled with a F instead of a PH (Humfrey, Adolf, and so on), and that the spellings were changed in English to conform to a fashion for classical Greek names.

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So, two questions:
1. Did these spelling changes occur because of a fashion?
2. If so, when did this occur?

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Miranda

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