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variant of ex-¹ (by assimilation) before f: efficient.

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Question 1 of 12

On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

ED is education, it's just shorter this way, And EF is for F, like "What the ef word did you just play?"
National Scrabble Day: A Poem So You’ll Know All 101 Two-Letter Words|David Bukszpan|April 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
It is classified as an EF-5 storm, the most powerful tornado of all.
Storm Hits Joplin|Terry Greene Sterling|May 25, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Blamed ef I'd lived in a country all my life, ef I wouldn't know better'n to git caught out in such weather's this!
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
I don't want ter see ennybody put upon, nor noways sufferin', ef so be's I kin help; but thet ain't ennythin' stronary, ez I know.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson

But ef Jos keeps on, airnin' ez much ez he hez so fur, he's goin' ter pay the Injun part on 't, when he cums.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
Thar couldn't nothin' kill her, short er wild beasts, ef she hed ther baby 'n her arms!
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
Cuss him to-night, ef he's alive; an' ef his bed is soff' as wool, doan let him sleep for thinkin' of Miss Dory.
The Cromptons|Mary J. Holmes