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For the letter ʃ as used in Latin script, see <a href="/wiki/Esh_(letter)" title="Esh (letter)">Esh (letter)</a>. For the mathematical symbol ∫, see <a href="/wiki/Integral_symbol" title="Integral symbol">Integral symbol</a>. For the phonetic sound ʃ, see <a href="/wiki/Voiceless_postalveolar_fricative" title="Voiceless postalveolar fricative">Voiceless postalveolar fricative</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/F" title="F">f</a>.</div> The long s, ⟨ſ⟩, also known as the medial s or initial s, is an <a href="/wiki/Archaism" title="Archaism">archaic</a> form of the <a href="/wiki/Lowercase" class="mw-redirect" title="Lowercase">lowercase</a> letter ⟨<a href="/wiki/S" title="S">s</a>⟩, found mostly in works from the late 8th to early 19th centuries. It replaced one or both<a href="#cite_note-1">[a]</a> of the letters s in a double-s sequence (e.g., "ſinfulneſs" for "sinfulness" and "poſſeſs" or "poſseſs" for "possess", but never "poſſeſſ").<a href="#cite_note-Babelstone-2">[1]</a> The modern ⟨s⟩ <a href="/wiki/Letterform" title="Letterform">letterform</a> is known as the "short", "terminal", or "round" s. In typography, the long s is known as a type of <a href="/wiki/Swash_letter" class="mw-redirect" title="Swash letter">swash letter</a>, commonly referred to as a "swash s".<a href="#cite_note-3">[2]</a> The long s is the basis of the first half of the <a href="/wiki/Grapheme" title="Grapheme">grapheme</a> of the German alphabet <a href="/wiki/Orthographic_ligature" class="mw-redirect" title="Orthographic ligature">ligature</a> letter ⟨<a href="/wiki/%C3%9F" title="ß">ß</a>⟩,<a href="#cite_note-4">[3]</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eszett" class="mw-redirect" title="Eszett">eszett</a> or scharfes s, 'sharp s'). As with other letters, the long s may have a variant appearance depending on typeface: ſ, ſ, ſ, ſ. <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Long-s-US-Bill-of-Rights.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Long-s-US-Bill-of-Rights.jpg/250px-Long-s-US-Bill-of-Rights.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="182" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Long-s-US-Bill-of-Rights.jpg/375px-Long-s-US-Bill-of-Rights.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Long-s-US-Bill-of-Rights.jpg/500px-Long-s-US-Bill-of-Rights.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1209" data-file-height="880"></a><figcaption>An italicized long s used in the word "Congress" (as "Congreſs") in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights" title="United States Bill of Rights">United States Bill of Rights</a></figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><div class="side-box metadata side-box-right noprint selfref"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">This page uses notation for orthographic or other linguistic analysis. For the meaning of how <code>⟨ ⟩</code>, <code>| |</code>, <code>/ /</code>, and <code>[ ]</code> are used here, see <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet#Brackets_and_transcription_delimiters" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">this page</a>.</div></div> </div> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Rules">1 Rules</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#English">1.1 English</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#German">1.2 German</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#History">2 History</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Similarity_to_letter_f">2.1 Similarity to letter f</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Ligatures">2.2 Ligatures</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#%C5%BF_and_s_as_distinct_letters">2.3 ſ and s as distinct letters</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Decline">2.4 Decline</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9"><a href="#Abandonment_by_printers_and_type_founders">2.4.1 Abandonment by printers and type founders</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10"><a href="#Eventual_abandonment_in_handwriting">2.4.2 Eventual abandonment in handwriting</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#Modern_usage">3 Modern usage</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="#In_Unicode">3.1 In Unicode</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="#Solidus_or_slash">4 Solidus or slash</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14"><a href="#Gallery">5 Gallery</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="#See_also">6 See also</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="#Notes">7 Notes</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="#References">8 References</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18"><a href="#External_links">9 External links</a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><h2 id="Rules">Rules</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Long_s&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Rules" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="English">English</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Long_s&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: English" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> This list of rules for the long s is not exhaustive, and it applies only to books printed during the 17th to early 19th centuries in English-speaking countries.<a href="#cite_note-Babelstone-2">[1]</a> Similar rules exist for other European languages.<a href="#cite_note-Babelstone-2">[1]</a> Long s was always used ("ſong", "ſubſtitute") except: <ul><li>Upper-case letters are always the round S; there is no upper-case long s.</li> <li>A round s was always used at the end of a word ending with ⟨s⟩: "his", "complains", "ſucceſs" <ul><li>However, long s was maintained in abbreviations such as "ſ." for "ſubſtantive" (substantive), and "Geneſ." for "Geneſis" (Genesis).</li></ul></li> <li>Before an apostrophe (indicating an omitted letter), a round s was used: "us'd" and "clos'd".</li> <li>Before or after an <a href="/wiki/F" title="F">f</a>, a round s was used: "offset", "ſatisfaction".</li> <li>In the 17th and early 18th centuries, the round s was used before k and b: "ask", "husband", <a href="/wiki/Aylesbury" title="Aylesbury">Ailesbury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salisbury" title="Salisbury">Salisbury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shaftesbury" title="Shaftesbury">Shaftsbury</a>;<a href="#cite_note-5">[4]</a> in the late 18th century: "aſk", "huſband", "Aileſbury", "Saliſbury" "Shaftſbury". <ul><li>These two exceptions applied only if the letters were physically adjacent on the page, and long s was used if the two were separated by a <a href="/wiki/Hyphen" title="Hyphen">hyphen</a> and line break, e.g. "off-ſet", "Saliſ-bury".</li></ul></li> <li>There were no special exceptions for a double s. The first s was always long, while the second was long in mid-word (e.g. "poſſeſſion"), or short when at the end of a word (e.g. "poſſeſs"). See, for example, the word "Bleſſings" in the <a href="/wiki/Preamble_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Preamble to the United States Constitution">Preamble to the United States Constitution</a>. <ul><li>This usage was not universal, and a long followed by a short s is sometimes seen even mid-word (e.g. "Miſsiſsippi").<a href="#cite_note-lowemap-6">[5]</a></li></ul></li> <li>Round s was used at the end of each word in a hyphenated compound word: "croſs-piece".</li> <li>In the case of a triple s, such words were normally hyphenated with a round s, e.g. "croſs-ſtitch", but a round s was used even if the hyphen was omitted: "croſsſtitch".</li></ul> In handwriting, these rules did not apply—the long s was usually confined to preceding a round s, either in the middle or at the end of a word—for example, "aſsure", "bleſsings".<a href="#cite_note-Babelstone-2">[1]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="German">German</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Long_s&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: German" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fraktur-Zwangsligaturen.svg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Fraktur-Zwangsligaturen.svg/220px-Fraktur-Zwangsligaturen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="189" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="261" data-file-height="224"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 189px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Fraktur-Zwangsligaturen.svg/220px-Fraktur-Zwangsligaturen.svg.png" data-width="220" data-height="189" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Fraktur-Zwangsligaturen.svg/330px-Fraktur-Zwangsligaturen.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Fraktur-Zwangsligaturen.svg/440px-Fraktur-Zwangsligaturen.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The ligature ſt, alongside ch, ck, and tʒ, is immune to spaced setting. However, it is usually undone as a ligature, contrary to the others. A different case altogether is ſʒ = ß as it is considered a single letter.</figcaption></figure> The general idea is that round s indicates the end of a semantic part. Thus, long ſ is used everywhere except at the end of a syllable, where further conditions need to be true. The following rules were laid down at the <a href="/wiki/German_Orthographic_Conference_of_1901" title="German Orthographic Conference of 1901">German Orthographic Conference of 1901</a>. The round s is used: <ul><li>at the end of (non-abbreviated) words: e.g. das Haus, der Kosmos, des Bundes, das Pils (however: im Hauſe, die Häuſer, das Pilſener)</li></ul> <ul><li>at the end of prefixes, as a connecting s and in compounds at the end of the first part-word, even if the following part-word begins with a long ſ: e.g. Liebesbrief, Arbeitsamt, Donnerstag, Unterſuchungsergebnis, Haustür, Dispoſition, disharmoniſch, dasſelbe, Wirtsſtube, Ausſicht</li></ul> <ul><li>in derivations with word formation suffixes that begin with a consonant, such as -lein, -chen, -bar, etc. (not before inflectional endings with t and possibly <a href="/wiki/Schwa" class="mw-redirect" title="Schwa">schwa</a> [<a href="/wiki/Mid_central_vowel" title="Mid central vowel">ə</a>]): e.g. Wachstum, Weisheit, Häuslein, Mäuschen, Bistum, nachweisbar, wohlweislich, boshaft (however: er reiſte, das ſechſte, cf. below ſt)</li></ul> <ul><li>at the end of a syllable, even if the syllable is not the end of a (part-)word, common in names and proper nouns: e.g. kosmiſch, brüskieren, Realismus, lesbiſch, Mesner; Oswald, Dresden, Schleswig, Osnabrück Many exceptions apply.</li></ul> Long ſ is used whenever round s is not used (for s): <ul><li>at the beginning of a syllable, i.e. anywhere before the vowel in the center of a syllable: e.g. ſauſen, einſpielen, ausſpielen, erſtaunen, ſkandalös, Pſyche, Miſanthrop (syllables: Mi⋅ſan⋅throp) The same applies for the beginning of a syllable of a suffix like -ſel, -ſal, -ſam, etc.: e.g. Rätſel, Labſal, ſeltſam</li></ul> <ul><li>in ſp and ſt (since 1901 also ſz), unless they arise by happenstance (via a connecting s or composition); that includes flexion suffixes starting with t: e.g. Weſpe, Knoſpe, faſten, faſzinierend, Oſzillograph, Aſt, Haſt, Luſt, einſt, du ſtehſt, meiſtens, beſte, knuſpern; er reiſt, du lieſt, es paſſte (<a href="/wiki/German_orthography_reform_of_1996" title="German orthography reform of 1996">modern orthography</a>; traditionally: paßte), ſechſte, Gſtaad</li></ul> <ul><li>in <a href="/wiki/Multigraph_(orthography)" title="Multigraph (orthography)">multigraphs</a> that represent a single sound such as ſch (to represent <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ʃ/</a>, but not <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/sx/</a>) and English ſh and doubled consonants ſſ and ſs: e.g. Buſch, Eſche, Wunſch, wünſchen, Flaſh, Waſſer, Biſſen, Zeugniſſe, Faſs (modern orthography.; traditionally: Faß), however: Eschatologie Also applies to double s through <a href="/wiki/Assimilation_(phonology)" title="Assimilation (phonology)">assimilation</a>: e.g. aſſimiliert, Aſſonanz</li></ul> <ul><li>before l, n, and r if an e is omitted: e.g. unſre, Pilſner, Wechſler however: Zuchthäusler, Oslo, Osnabrück</li></ul> <ul><li>before an <a href="/wiki/Apostrophe" title="Apostrophe">apostrophe</a> and other forms of abbreviation: e.g. ich laſſ’ es (casual for ich laſſe es), ſ. (common abbreviation for ſiehe)</li></ul> <ul><li>when the initial ſ of a word is merged with and has priority over the terminal s of a prefix: e.g. in tranſzendent, tranſzendieren, etc.; in this case, the initial ſ of ſzend is merged with the terminal s of the trans prefix due to z following the ſ.</li></ul> These rules do not cover all cases and in some corner cases, multiple variants can be found. One such case is whether to apply original semantics (that are largely unknown) or follow spoken syllables; e.g. in Asbest vs. Aſbest as it is spoken As⋅best, but comes from <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a> ἄσβεστος composed of ᾰ̓- plus σβέννῡμῐ, meaning a is a prefix, and thus, a long ſ follows. In <a href="/wiki/Fraktur" title="Fraktur">Fraktur</a>, ligature ſt (Unicode: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style>U+FB05 ﬅ LATIN SMALL LIGATURE LONG S T) as the ligatures ch and ck, is "immune" to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Spaced_setting&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spaced setting (page does not exist)">spaced setting</a>. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="History">History</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Long_s&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: History" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a>. 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Find sources: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22Long+s%22">"Long s"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22Long+s%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> · <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22Long+s%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> · <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Long+s%22+-wikipedia">books</a> · <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Long+s%22">scholar</a> · <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22Long+s%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a> (October 2019) (<a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> The long s was derived from the old <a href="/wiki/Roman_cursive" title="Roman cursive">Roman cursive</a> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/medial#English:_phonetics,_middle_of_word" class="extiw" title="wikt:medial">medial</a> s, ⟨<a href="/wiki/File:Old_Roman_Cursive_S_(only).png" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img alt="Medial s in old Roman script" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Old_Roman_Cursive_S_%28only%29.png/12px-Old_Roman_Cursive_S_%28only%29.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="86" data-file-height="89"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 12px;height: 12px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Old_Roman_Cursive_S_%28only%29.png/12px-Old_Roman_Cursive_S_%28only%29.png" data-alt="Medial s in old Roman script" data-width="12" data-height="12" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Old_Roman_Cursive_S_%28only%29.png/18px-Old_Roman_Cursive_S_%28only%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Old_Roman_Cursive_S_%28only%29.png/24px-Old_Roman_Cursive_S_%28only%29.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a>⟩.<a href="#cite_note-7">[6]</a> When the distinction between <a href="/wiki/Majuscule" class="mw-redirect" title="Majuscule">majuscule</a> (uppercase) and <a href="/wiki/Letter_case" title="Letter case">minuscule</a> (lowercase) letter forms became established, <a href="/wiki/Carolingian_minuscule" title="Carolingian minuscule">toward the end of the eighth century</a>, it developed a more vertical form.<a href="#cite_note-A_Ox-8">[7]</a> During this period, it was occasionally used at the end of a word, a practice that quickly died but that was occasionally revived in <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italian</a> <a href="/wiki/Printing" title="Printing">printing</a> between about 1465 and 1480. Thus, the general rule that the long s never occurred at the end of a word is not strictly correct, although the exceptions are rare and archaic. The double s in the middle of a word was also written with a long s and a short s, as in: "Miſsiſsippi".<a href="#cite_note-lowemap-6">[5]</a> In German <a href="/wiki/Typography" title="Typography">typography</a>, the rules are more complicated: short s also appears at the end of each component within a compound word, and there are more detailed rules and practices for special cases. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Similarity_to_letter_f">Similarity to letter f</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Long_s&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Similarity to letter f" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Secret_foe.png" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Secret_foe.png/220px-Secret_foe.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="59" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="404" data-file-height="108"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 59px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Secret_foe.png/220px-Secret_foe.png" data-width="220" data-height="59" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Secret_foe.png/330px-Secret_foe.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Secret_foe.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Two words ("ſecret foe") extracted from the 1667 printing of the poem "<a href="/wiki/Paradise_Lost" title="Paradise Lost">Paradise Lost</a>" (Book IV page 1), showing long s and f</figcaption></figure> The long s is often confused with the minuscule ⟨<a href="/wiki/F" title="F">f</a>⟩, sometimes even having an f-like nub at its middle but on the left side only in various <a href="/wiki/Roman_type" title="Roman type">roman</a> <a href="/wiki/Typeface" title="Typeface">typefaces</a> and in <a href="/wiki/Blackletter" title="Blackletter">blackletter</a>. There was no nub in its <a href="/wiki/Italics" class="mw-redirect" title="Italics">italic</a> type form, which gave the stroke a <a href="/wiki/Descender" title="Descender">descender</a> that curled to the left and which is not possible without <a href="/wiki/Kerning" title="Kerning">kerning</a> in the other type forms mentioned. For this reason, the short s was also normally used in combination with f: for example, in "ſatisfaction".[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The nub acquired its form in the blackletter style of writing. What looks like one stroke was actually a wedge pointing downward. The wedge's widest part was at that height (<a href="/wiki/X-height" title="X-height">x-height</a>) and capped by a second stroke that formed an <a href="/wiki/Ascender_(typography)" title="Ascender (typography)">ascender</a> that curled to the right. Those styles of writing, and their derivatives, in type design had a crossbar at the height of the nub for letters f and t, as well as for k. In roman type, except for the crossbar on <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/medial#English:_phonetics,_middle_of_word" class="extiw" title="wikt:medial">medial</a> s, all other cross bars disappeared.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ligatures">Ligatures</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Long_s&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Ligatures" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Berlin_dworzec_Nordbahnhof_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Berlin_dworzec_Nordbahnhof_2.jpg/220px-Berlin_dworzec_Nordbahnhof_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="84" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="1975"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 84px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Berlin_dworzec_Nordbahnhof_2.jpg/220px-Berlin_dworzec_Nordbahnhof_2.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="84" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Berlin_dworzec_Nordbahnhof_2.jpg/330px-Berlin_dworzec_Nordbahnhof_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Berlin_dworzec_Nordbahnhof_2.jpg/440px-Berlin_dworzec_Nordbahnhof_2.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Direction sign to <a href="/wiki/Bernauer_Stra%C3%9Fe_(Berlin_U-Bahn)" title="Bernauer Straße (Berlin U-Bahn)">Bernauer Straße</a>, with long s and with ⟨ß⟩ written as a ⟨ſ<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\mathfrak {z}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="fraktur">z</mi> </mrow> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle {\mathfrak {z}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math><noscript><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/66cbe4423d376d7d25e051dea95d58585335fb8f" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; margin-left: -0.015ex; width:0.924ex; height:2.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle {\mathfrak {z}}}"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 0.924ex;height: 2.009ex;vertical-align: -0.671ex;" data-src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/66cbe4423d376d7d25e051dea95d58585335fb8f" data-alt="{\displaystyle {\mathfrak {z}}}" data-class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert"> ⟩ ligature </figcaption></figure> The long s was used in <a href="/wiki/Ligature_(typography)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ligature (typography)">ligatures</a> in various languages. Four examples were ⟨si⟩, ⟨ss⟩, ⟨st⟩, and the <a href="/wiki/German_orthography" title="German orthography">German</a> letter <a href="/wiki/%C3%9F" title="ß">Eszett</a> ⟨ß⟩.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Long_S-I_Garamond_sort_001.png" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Long_S-I_Garamond_sort_001.png/220px-Long_S-I_Garamond_sort_001.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="314" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="504" data-file-height="720"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 314px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Long_S-I_Garamond_sort_001.png/220px-Long_S-I_Garamond_sort_001.png" data-width="220" data-height="314" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Long_S-I_Garamond_sort_001.png/330px-Long_S-I_Garamond_sort_001.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Long_S-I_Garamond_sort_001.png/440px-Long_S-I_Garamond_sort_001.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>A ligature of ſi on <a href="/wiki/Movable_type" title="Movable type">Movable type</a>.</figcaption></figure> The present-day German letter ß (<a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: Eszett or scharfes s; also used in <a href="/wiki/Low_German" title="Low German">Low German</a> and historical <a href="/wiki/Upper_Sorbian" class="mw-redirect" title="Upper Sorbian">Upper Sorbian</a> <a href="/wiki/Orthographies" class="mw-redirect" title="Orthographies">orthographies</a>) is generally considered to have originated in a (<a href="/wiki/Fraktur" title="Fraktur">Fraktur</a>) ligature of ⟨ſz⟩ (which is supported by the fact that the second part of the ⟨ß⟩ <a href="/wiki/Grapheme" title="Grapheme">grapheme</a> usually resembles a Fraktur z: ⟨<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\mathfrak {z}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="fraktur">z</mi> </mrow> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle {\mathfrak {z}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math><noscript><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/66cbe4423d376d7d25e051dea95d58585335fb8f" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; margin-left: -0.015ex; width:0.924ex; height:2.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle {\mathfrak {z}}}"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 0.924ex;height: 2.009ex;vertical-align: -0.671ex;" data-src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/66cbe4423d376d7d25e051dea95d58585335fb8f" data-alt="{\displaystyle {\mathfrak {z}}}" data-class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert"> ⟩, hence ⟨ſ<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\mathfrak {z}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="fraktur">z</mi> </mrow> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle {\mathfrak {z}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math><noscript><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/66cbe4423d376d7d25e051dea95d58585335fb8f" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; margin-left: -0.015ex; width:0.924ex; height:2.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle {\mathfrak {z}}}"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 0.924ex;height: 2.009ex;vertical-align: -0.671ex;" data-src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/66cbe4423d376d7d25e051dea95d58585335fb8f" data-alt="{\displaystyle {\mathfrak {z}}}" data-class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert"> ⟩<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1033199720">.mw-parser-output div.crossreference{padding-left:0}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951">; see <a href="/wiki/%C3%9F" title="ß">ß</a> for details), although in <a href="/wiki/Antiqua_(typeface_class)" title="Antiqua (typeface class)">Antiqua</a>, the ligature of ⟨ſs⟩ is used instead. An alternative hypothesis claims that the German letter ß originated in <a href="/wiki/Tironian_notes" title="Tironian notes">Tironian notes</a>.<a href="#cite_note-9">[8]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="ſ_and_s_as_distinct_letters">ſ and s as distinct letters</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Long_s&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: ſ and s as distinct letters" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Some old orthographic systems of Slavonic and <a href="/wiki/Baltic_languages" title="Baltic languages">Baltic languages</a> used ⟨ſ⟩ and ⟨s⟩ as two separate letters with different phonetic values. For example, the <a href="/wiki/Bohori%C4%8D_alphabet" title="Bohorič alphabet">Bohorič alphabet</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Slovene_language" title="Slovene language">Slovene language</a> included ⟨ſ⟩ /s/, ⟨s⟩ /z/, ⟨ſh⟩ /ʃ/, ⟨sh⟩ /ʒ/. In the original version of the alphabet, majuscule ⟨S⟩ was shared by both letters.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Decline">Decline</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Long_s&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Decline" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Historical_usage_of_long_s.svg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Historical_usage_of_long_s.svg/220px-Historical_usage_of_long_s.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="81" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="660"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 81px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Historical_usage_of_long_s.svg/220px-Historical_usage_of_long_s.svg.png" data-width="220" data-height="81" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Historical_usage_of_long_s.svg/330px-Historical_usage_of_long_s.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Historical_usage_of_long_s.svg/440px-Historical_usage_of_long_s.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Incidence of the word-forms "laft" [<a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a>] and "last" in English documents from 1700 to 1900, according to Google's web <a href="/wiki/N-gram" title="N-gram">n-grams</a> database. Based on <a href="/wiki/Optical_character_recognition" title="Optical character recognition">OCR</a> scans of books, which can misidentify the long s as f.<a href="#cite_note-10">[9]</a></figcaption></figure> In general, the long s fell out of use in roman and italic typefaces in professional printing well before the middle of the 19th century. It rarely appears in good-quality London printing after 1800, though it lingers provincially until 1824 and is found in handwriting into the second half of the nineteenth century,<a href="#cite_note-Attar-11">[10]</a> and is sometimes seen later on in archaic or traditionalist printing such as printed collections of sermons. <a href="/wiki/Robert_Woodhouse" title="Robert Woodhouse">Woodhouse</a>'s The Principles of Analytical Calculation, published by the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University_Press" title="Cambridge University Press">Cambridge University Press</a> in 1803, uses the long s throughout its roman text.<a href="#cite_note-12">[11]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Abandonment_by_printers_and_type_founders">Abandonment by printers and type founders</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Long_s&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Abandonment by printers and type founders" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:5th6thEdition.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/5th6thEdition.jpeg/220px-5th6thEdition.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="137" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2184" data-file-height="1364"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 137px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/5th6thEdition.jpeg/220px-5th6thEdition.jpeg" data-width="220" data-height="137" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/5th6thEdition.jpeg/330px-5th6thEdition.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/5th6thEdition.jpeg/440px-5th6thEdition.jpeg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Fifth edition of <a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" title="Encyclopædia Britannica">Encyclopædia Britannica</a>, 1817, top, compared to the sixth edition of 1823; the only change (aside from the elimination of the ⟨ct⟩ ligature, as in "attraction") was the removal of the long s from the typeface.</figcaption></figure> The long s disappeared from new typefaces rapidly in the mid-1790s, and most printers who could afford to do so had discarded older typefaces by the early years of the 19th century. Pioneer of type design <a href="/wiki/John_Bell_(publisher)" title="John Bell (publisher)">John Bell</a> (1746–1831), who started the <a href="/wiki/British_Letter_Foundry" class="mw-redirect" title="British Letter Foundry">British Letter Foundry</a> in 1788, is often "credited with the demise of the long s".<a href="#cite_note-13">[12]</a> Paul W. Nash concluded that the change mostly happened very fast in 1800, and believes that this was triggered by the <a href="/wiki/Unlawful_Societies_Act_1799" title="Unlawful Societies Act 1799">Seditious Societies Act</a>. To discourage subversive publications, this required printing to name the identity of the printer, and so in Nash's view gave printers an incentive to make their work look more modern.<a href="#cite_note-Nash-14">[13]</a> Unlike the 1755 edition, which uses the long s throughout,<a href="#cite_note-15">[14]</a> the 1808 edition of the Printer's Grammar describes the transition away from the use of the long s among type founders and printers in its list of available <a href="/wiki/Sort_(typesetting)" title="Sort (typesetting)">sorts</a>: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">The introduction of the round s, instead of the long, is an improvement in the art of printing equal, if not superior, to any which has taken place in recent years, and for which we are indebted to the ingenious Mr. Bell, who introduced them in his edition of the British Classics [published in the 1780s and 1790s]. They are now generally adopted, and the [type founders] scarcely ever cast a long s to their fonts, unless particularly ordered. Indeed, they omit it altogether in their specimens ... They are placed in our list of sorts, not to recommend them, but because we may not be subject to blame from those of the old school, who are tenacious of deviating from custom, however antiquated, for giving a list which they might term imperfect.<div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Caleb Stower, The Printer's Grammar (1808).<a href="#cite_note-16">[15]</a></cite></div></blockquote> An individual instance of an important work using s instead of the long s occurred in 1749, with <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Ames_(author)" title="Joseph Ames (author)">Joseph Ames</a>'s Typographical Antiquities, about printing in England 1471–1600, but "the general abolition of long s began with John Bell's British Theatre (1791)".<a href="#cite_note-Attar-11">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-17">[b]</a> In Spain, the change was accomplished mainly between the years 1760 and 1766;<a href="#cite_note-Nash-14">[13]</a> for example, the multivolume España Sagrada made the switch with volume 16 (1762). In France, the change occurred between 1782 and 1793: <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Didot" class="mw-redirect" title="François Didot">François Didot</a> designed <a href="/wiki/Didone_(typography)" title="Didone (typography)">Didone</a> to be used substantially without long s.<a href="#cite_note-Nash-14">[13]</a> The change happened in Italy at about the same time: <a href="/wiki/Giambattista_Bodoni" title="Giambattista Bodoni">Giambattista Bodoni</a> also designed his <a href="/wiki/Bodoni" title="Bodoni">Bodoni</a> typeface without long s.<a href="#cite_note-Nash-14">[13]</a> Printers in the United States stopped using the long s between 1795 and 1810: for example, <a href="/wiki/Act_of_Congress" title="Act of Congress">acts of Congress</a> were published with the long s throughout 1803, switching to the short s in 1804. In the US, a late use of the long s was in <a href="/wiki/Low%27s_Encyclopaedia" title="Low's Encyclopaedia">Low's Encyclopaedia</a>, which was published between 1805 and 1811. Its reprint in 1816 was one of the last such uses recorded in the US. The most recent recorded use of the long s typeset among English printed Bibles can be found in the <a href="/wiki/Lunenburg,_Massachusetts" title="Lunenburg, Massachusetts">Lunenburg, Massachusetts</a>, 1826 printing by W. Greenough and Son. The same typeset was used for the 1826 printed later by W. Greenough and Son, and the statutes of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>'s colony <a href="/wiki/Nova_Scotia" title="Nova Scotia">Nova Scotia</a> also used the long s as late as 1816. Some examples of the use of the long and short s among specific well-known typefaces and publications in the UK include the following: <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Caslon" title="Caslon">Caslon</a> typeface of 1732 has the long s.<a href="#cite_note-Gaskell_Bibliography_210-18">[16]</a></li> <li>The Caslon typeface of 1796 has the short s only.<a href="#cite_note-Gaskell_Bibliography_210-18">[16]</a></li> <li>In the UK, <a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a> of London made the switch from the long to the short s with its issue of 10 September 1803.</li> <li>The Catherwood typeface of 1810 has the short s only.<a href="#cite_note-Gaskell_Bibliography_210-18">[16]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" title="Encyclopædia Britannica">Encyclopædia Britannica</a>'s 5th edition, completed in 1817, was the last edition to use the long s.<a href="#cite_note-19">[17]</a> The 1823 6th edition uses the short s.</li> <li>The Caslon typeface of 1841 has the short s only.<a href="#cite_note-Gaskell_Bibliography_210-18">[16]</a></li> <li>Two typefaces from <a href="/wiki/Stephenson_Blake" title="Stephenson Blake">Stephenson Blake</a>, both 1838–1841, have the short s only.<a href="#cite_note-Gaskell_Bibliography_210-18">[16]</a></li></ul> When the <a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a> began, the contrast between the non-use of the long s by the United States, and its continued use by the United Kingdom, is illustrated by the Twelfth US Congress's use of the short s of today in the <a href="/wiki/File:1812_War_Declaration.jpg" title="File:1812 War Declaration.jpg">US declaration of war against the United Kingdom</a>, and, in contrast, the continued use of long s within the text of <a href="/wiki/File:Proclamation_Province_of_Upper_Canada_by_Isaac_Brock.jpg" title="File:Proclamation Province of Upper Canada by Isaac Brock.jpg">Isaac Brock's counterpart document</a> responding to the declaration of war by the US.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Early editions of Scottish poet <a href="/wiki/Robert_Burns" title="Robert Burns">Robert Burns</a> that have lost their title page can be dated by their use of the long s; that is, James Currie's edition of the Works of Robert Burns (Liverpool, 1800 and many reprintings) does not use the long s, while editions from the 1780s and early 1790s do.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In printing, instances of the long s continue in rare and sometimes notable cases in the UK until the end of the 19th century, possibly as part of a consciously antiquarian revival of old-fashioned type. For example: <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Chiswick_Press" title="Chiswick Press">Chiswick Press</a> reprinted the <a href="/wiki/Wycliffite" class="mw-redirect" title="Wycliffite">Wyclyffite</a> New Testament in 1848 in the Caslon typeface,<a href="#cite_note-20">[18]</a> using the long s; Chiswick Press, run by Charles Whittingham II (nephew of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Whittingham" title="Charles Whittingham">Charles Whittingham</a>) from c. 1832–1870s, reprinted classics like <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer" title="Geoffrey Chaucer">Geoffrey Chaucer</a>'s <a href="/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales" title="The Canterbury Tales">The Canterbury Tales</a> in a typeface of Caslon that included the long s.</li> <li>The "antiqued" first edition of <a href="/wiki/Thackeray" class="mw-redirect" title="Thackeray">Thackeray</a>'s <a href="/wiki/The_History_of_Henry_Esmond" title="The History of Henry Esmond">The History of Henry Esmond</a> (1852), a <a href="/wiki/Historical_novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Historical novel">historical novel</a> set in the eighteenth century, prints long s, and not just when doubled as in "mistreſs's".<a href="#cite_note-21">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-22">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-Recasting_Caslon_Old_Face-23">[21]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Elizabeth_Coleridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary Elizabeth Coleridge">Mary Elizabeth Coleridge</a>'s first volume of poetry, Fancy's Following, published in 1896, was printed with the long s.<a href="#cite_note-24">[22]</a></li> <li>Collections of sermons were published using the long s until the end of the 19th century.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</li></ul> In Germany, <a href="/wiki/Fraktur" title="Fraktur">Fraktur</a>-family typefaces (such as <a href="/wiki/Tannenberg_(typeface)" title="Tannenberg (typeface)">Tannenberg</a>, used by <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Reichsbahn" title="Deutsche Reichsbahn">Deutsche Reichsbahn</a> for station signage, as illustrated <a href="#Ligatures">above</a>) continued in widespread official use until the <a href="/wiki/Schwabacher#Normal_type_decree" title="Schwabacher">"Normal Type" decree</a> of 1941 required that they be phased out. (Private use had <a href="/wiki/Antiqua%E2%80%93Fraktur_dispute" title="Antiqua–Fraktur dispute">already largely ceased</a>.) The long s survives in <a href="/wiki/Fraktur" title="Fraktur">Fraktur</a> typefaces. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Eventual_abandonment_in_handwriting">Eventual abandonment in handwriting</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Long_s&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Eventual abandonment in handwriting" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Schw%C3%A4bische_Bastarda_1496_Schriftprobe_Priesters_Tochter.png" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Schw%C3%A4bische_Bastarda_1496_Schriftprobe_Priesters_Tochter.png/220px-Schw%C3%A4bische_Bastarda_1496_Schriftprobe_Priesters_Tochter.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="79" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3162" data-file-height="1133"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 79px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Schw%C3%A4bische_Bastarda_1496_Schriftprobe_Priesters_Tochter.png/220px-Schw%C3%A4bische_Bastarda_1496_Schriftprobe_Priesters_Tochter.png" data-width="220" data-height="79" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Schw%C3%A4bische_Bastarda_1496_Schriftprobe_Priesters_Tochter.png/330px-Schw%C3%A4bische_Bastarda_1496_Schriftprobe_Priesters_Tochter.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Schw%C3%A4bische_Bastarda_1496_Schriftprobe_Priesters_Tochter.png/440px-Schw%C3%A4bische_Bastarda_1496_Schriftprobe_Priesters_Tochter.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>German handwriting (<a href="/wiki/Bastarda" title="Bastarda">Bastarda</a>), 1496, showing long and round s (as well as an <a href="/wiki/R_rotunda" title="R rotunda">r rotunda</a>) in "priesters"</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Example_of_handwritten_%C5%BF_in_a_letter_from_Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Example_of_handwritten_%C5%BF_in_a_letter_from_Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB.jpg/290px-Example_of_handwritten_%C5%BF_in_a_letter_from_Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="75" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="376" data-file-height="97"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 290px;height: 75px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Example_of_handwritten_%C5%BF_in_a_letter_from_Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB.jpg/290px-Example_of_handwritten_%C5%BF_in_a_letter_from_Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB.jpg" data-width="290" data-height="75" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Example_of_handwritten_%C5%BF_in_a_letter_from_Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB.jpg 1.5x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>"Miss Austen's"—an example of a handwritten long s in a letter from <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB" title="Charlotte Brontë">Charlotte Brontë</a> to G. H. Lewes, 12 January 1848</figcaption></figure> After its decline and disappearance in printing in the early years of the 19th century, the long s persisted into the second half of the century in manuscript. In handwriting used for correspondence and diaries, its use for a single s seems to have disappeared first: most manuscript examples from the 19th century use it for the first s in a double s. For example, <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB" title="Charlotte Brontë">Charlotte Brontë</a> used the long s, as the first in a double s, in some of her letters, e.g., "Miſs Austen" in a letter to the critic <a href="/wiki/George_Henry_Lewes" title="George Henry Lewes">G. H. Lewes</a>, 12 January 1848; in other letters, however, she uses the short s, for example in an 1849 letter to <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Bront%C3%AB" title="Patrick Brontë">Patrick Brontë</a>, her father.<a href="#cite_note-25">[23]</a> Her husband <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Bell_Nicholls" title="Arthur Bell Nicholls">Arthur Bell Nicholls</a> used the long s in writing to <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Nussey" title="Ellen Nussey">Ellen Nussey</a> of Brontë's death.<a href="#cite_note-26">[24]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Lear" title="Edward Lear">Edward Lear</a> regularly used the long s in his diaries in the second half of the 19th century; for example, his 1884 diary has an instance in which the first s in a double s is long: "Addreſsed".<a href="#cite_note-27">[25]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilkie_Collins" title="Wilkie Collins">Wilkie Collins</a> routinely used the long s for the first in a double s in his manuscript correspondence; for example, he used the long s in the words "mſs" (manuscripts) and "needleſs" in a 1 June 1886 letter to Daniel S. Ford.<a href="#cite_note-28">[26]</a></li></ul> For these as well as others, the handwritten long s may have suggested type and a certain formality as well as the traditional. Margaret Mathewson "published" her Sketch of 8 Months a Patient in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, A.D. 1877 of her experiences as a patient of <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Lister,_1st_Baron_Lister" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister">Joseph Lister</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Infirmary_of_Edinburgh" title="Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh">Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh</a> by writing copies out in manuscript.<a href="#cite_note-29">[c]</a> In place of the first s in a double s, Mathewson recreated the long s in these copies, a practice widely used for both personal and business correspondence by her family, who lived on the remote island of <a href="/wiki/Yell,_Shetland" title="Yell, Shetland">Yell, Shetland</a>. The practice of using the long s in handwriting on Yell, as elsewhere, may have been a carryover from 18th-century printing conventions, but it was not unfamiliar as a convention in handwriting.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="Modern_usage">Modern usage</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Long_s&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Modern usage" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CycleDesign_Kopie.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/CycleDesign_Kopie.jpg/250px-CycleDesign_Kopie.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="208" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1694" data-file-height="1407"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 250px;height: 208px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/CycleDesign_Kopie.jpg/250px-CycleDesign_Kopie.jpg" data-width="250" data-height="208" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/CycleDesign_Kopie.jpg/375px-CycleDesign_Kopie.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/CycleDesign_Kopie.jpg/500px-CycleDesign_Kopie.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Cycle Deſign (Cycle Design) in <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>, 2002</figcaption></figure> The long s survives in elongated form, with an italic-styled curled descender, as the <a href="/wiki/Integral_symbol" title="Integral symbol">integral symbol</a> ∫ used in <a href="/wiki/Calculus" title="Calculus">calculus</a>. <a href="/wiki/Gottfried_Leibniz" class="mw-redirect" title="Gottfried Leibniz">Gottfried Leibniz</a> based the character on the Latin summa ('sum'), which he wrote ſumma. This use first appeared publicly in his paper De Geometria, published in <a href="/wiki/Acta_Eruditorum" title="Acta Eruditorum">Acta Eruditorum</a> of June 1686,<a href="#cite_note-30">[27]</a> but he had been using it in private manuscripts at least since 29 October 1675.<a href="#cite_note-31">[28]</a> The integral of a function f(<var style="padding-right: 1px;">x</var>) with respect to a real variable <var style="padding-right: 1px;">x</var> over the interval [<var style="padding-right: 1px;">a</var>, <var style="padding-right: 1px;">b</var>] is typeset as:[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r996643573">.mw-parser-output .block-indent{padding-left:3em;padding-right:0;overflow:hidden}</style><div class="block-indent"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \int _{a}^{b}f(x)\,dx.}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <msubsup> <mo>∫</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>a</mi> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>b</mi> </mrow> </msubsup> <mi>f</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>x</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mspace width="thinmathspace"></mspace> <mi>d</mi> <mi>x</mi> <mo>.</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \int _{a}^{b}f(x)\,dx.}</annotation> </semantics> </math><noscript><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/249ee3fdbced31dfc328ff357f67bb134ca66b8d" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -2.338ex; width:11.786ex; height:6.343ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \int _{a}^{b}f(x)\,dx.}"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 11.786ex;height: 6.343ex;vertical-align: -2.338ex;" data-src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/249ee3fdbced31dfc328ff357f67bb134ca66b8d" data-alt="{\displaystyle \int _{a}^{b}f(x)\,dx.}" data-class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert"> </div> In linguistics, a similar character (ʃ, called <a href="/wiki/Esh_(letter)" title="Esh (letter)">esh</a>) is used in the <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">International Phonetic Alphabet</a>, in which it represents the <a href="/wiki/Voiceless_postalveolar_fricative" title="Voiceless postalveolar fricative">voiceless postalveolar fricative</a>, the first sound in the English word ship.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In Nordic and German-speaking countries, relics of the long s continue to be seen in signs and logos that use various forms of <a href="/wiki/Fraktur" title="Fraktur">fraktur</a> typefaces. Examples include the logos of the Norwegian newspapers <a href="/wiki/Aftenposten" title="Aftenposten">Aftenpoſten</a> and <a href="/wiki/Adresseavisen" title="Adresseavisen">Adresſeaviſen</a>; the packaging logo for Finnish <a href="/wiki/Sisu_(candy)" title="Sisu (candy)">Siſu</a> pastilles; and the German <a href="/wiki/J%C3%A4germeister" title="Jägermeister">Jägermeiſter</a> logo.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The long s exists in some current <a href="/wiki/OpenType" title="OpenType">OpenType</a> digital fonts that are historic revivals, like <a href="/wiki/Caslon" title="Caslon">Caslon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Garamond" title="Garamond">Garamond</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bodoni" title="Bodoni">Bodoni</a>.<a href="#cite_note-32">[29]</a> Some Latin alphabets devised in the 1920s for some <a href="/wiki/Caucasian_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Caucasian languages">Caucasian languages</a> used the ⟨ſ⟩ for some specific sounds.<a href="#cite_note-33">[30]</a> These orthographies were in actual use until 1938.<a href="#cite_note-34">[31]</a> Some of these developed a capital form which resembles the <a href="/wiki/Voiced_pharyngeal_fricative" title="Voiced pharyngeal fricative">IPA letter</a> ⟨ʕ⟩ <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951">see <a href="/wiki/Udi_language#Alphabet" title="Udi language">Udi language § Alphabet</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In the 1993 <a href="/wiki/Turkmen_orthography" class="mw-redirect" title="Turkmen orthography">Turkmen orthography</a>, ⟨ſ⟩ represented /<a href="/wiki/Voiced_postalveolar_fricative" title="Voiced postalveolar fricative">ʒ</a>/; however, it was replaced by 1999 by the letter ⟨<a href="/wiki/%C5%BD" title="Ž">ž</a>⟩. The capital form was ⟨£⟩, which was replaced by ⟨Ž⟩.<a href="#cite_note-35">[32]</a><a href="#cite_note-36">[33]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_Unicode">In Unicode</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Long_s&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: In Unicode" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734">U+017F ſ LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S</li> <li>A long s with a <a href="/wiki/Bar_(diacritic)" title="Bar (diacritic)">bar diacritic</a>, ⟨<a href="/wiki/%E1%BA%9C" class="mw-redirect" title="ẜ">ẜ</a>⟩ is encoded as <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734">U+1E9C ẜ LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="Solidus_or_slash">Solidus or slash </h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Long_s&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Solidus or slash" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/%C2%A3sd" title="£sd">£sd</a></div> An echo of the long s survives today in the form of the mark <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">/</code>, popularly known as a "<a href="/wiki/Slash_(punctuation)" title="Slash (punctuation)">slash</a>" but formally named a <a href="/wiki/Solidus_(punctuation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Solidus (punctuation)">solidus</a>. The mark is an evolution of the long s which was used as the abbreviation for '<a href="/wiki/Shilling" title="Shilling">shilling</a>' in Britain's pre-decimal currency, originally written as in 7ſ 6d, later as "7/6", meaning "seven shillings and six pence".<a href="#cite_note-37">[34]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Long_s&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Gallery" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1248256098">@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery{width:100%!important}}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery{display:table}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-default{background:transparent;margin-top:4px}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-center{margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-left{float:left}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-right{float:right}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-none{float:none}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-collapsible{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .title,.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .main,.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .footer{display:table-row}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .title>div{display:table-cell;padding:0 4px 4px;text-align:center;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .main>div{display:table-cell}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .gallery{line-height:1.35em}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .footer>div{display:table-cell;padding:4px;text-align:right;font-size:85%;line-height:1em}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .title>div *,.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .footer>div *{overflow:visible}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .gallerybox img{background:none!important}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .bordered-images .thumb img{border:solid var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0)1px}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .whitebg .thumb{background:var(--background-color-base,#fff)!important}</style><div class="mod-gallery mod-gallery-default"><div class="main"><div><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional nochecker bordered-images whitebg"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 110px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 105px; height: 105px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Old_Roman_Cursive_S.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Medial s in old Roman script"><noscript><img alt="Medial s in old Roman script" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Old_Roman_Cursive_S.png/40px-Old_Roman_Cursive_S.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="75" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="86" data-file-height="159"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 40px;height: 75px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Old_Roman_Cursive_S.png/40px-Old_Roman_Cursive_S.png" data-alt="Medial s in old Roman script" data-width="40" data-height="75" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Old_Roman_Cursive_S.png/61px-Old_Roman_Cursive_S.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Old_Roman_Cursive_S.png/81px-Old_Roman_Cursive_S.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Medial s in old Roman script</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 110px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 105px; height: 105px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Capital_long_S_example.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Italic capitals: long s (right) and round s"><noscript><img alt="Italic capitals: long s (right) and round s" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Capital_long_S_example.png" decoding="async" width="75" height="64" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="74" data-file-height="63"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 75px;height: 64px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Capital_long_S_example.png" data-alt="Italic capitals: long s (right) and round s" data-width="75" data-height="64" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Italic capitals: long s (right) and round s</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 110px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 105px; height: 105px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Latin_small_letter_long-s_long-s_t_ligature.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="ſ ſ t ligature in Junicode font"><noscript><img alt="ſ ſ t ligature in Junicode font" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Latin_small_letter_long-s_long-s_t_ligature.svg/75px-Latin_small_letter_long-s_long-s_t_ligature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="75" height="70" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="158" data-file-height="147"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 75px;height: 70px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Latin_small_letter_long-s_long-s_t_ligature.svg/75px-Latin_small_letter_long-s_long-s_t_ligature.svg.png" data-alt="ſ ſ t ligature in Junicode font" data-width="75" data-height="70" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Latin_small_letter_long-s_long-s_t_ligature.svg/113px-Latin_small_letter_long-s_long-s_t_ligature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Latin_small_letter_long-s_long-s_t_ligature.svg/150px-Latin_small_letter_long-s_long-s_t_ligature.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">ſ ſ t ligature in Junicode font</div> </li> </ul></div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248256098"><div class="mod-gallery mod-gallery-default"><div class="main"><div><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional nochecker bordered-images whitebg"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Latin_letter_long_S_(Reform_form).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Long s with capital and lowercase as used in Reform, journal of the Allgemeiner Verein für vereinfachte Rechtschreibung, in the 1890s"><noscript><img alt="Long s with capital and lowercase as used in Reform, journal of the Allgemeiner Verein für vereinfachte Rechtschreibung, in the 1890s" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Latin_letter_long_S_%28Reform_form%29.svg/180px-Latin_letter_long_S_%28Reform_form%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="450" data-file-height="300"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 180px;height: 120px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Latin_letter_long_S_%28Reform_form%29.svg/180px-Latin_letter_long_S_%28Reform_form%29.svg.png" data-alt="Long s with capital and lowercase as used in Reform, journal of the Allgemeiner Verein für vereinfachte Rechtschreibung, in the 1890s" data-width="180" data-height="120" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Latin_letter_long_S_%28Reform_form%29.svg/270px-Latin_letter_long_S_%28Reform_form%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Latin_letter_long_S_%28Reform_form%29.svg/360px-Latin_letter_long_S_%28Reform_form%29.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Long s with capital and lowercase as used in Reform, journal of the Allgemeiner Verein für vereinfachte Rechtschreibung, in the 1890s</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Milton_paradise.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Title page of John Milton's Paradise Lost, featuring an ſt ligature and a nub on the long s"><noscript><img alt="Title page of John Milton's Paradise Lost, featuring an ſt ligature and a nub on the long s" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Milton_paradise.jpg/123px-Milton_paradise.jpg" decoding="async" width="123" height="180" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="363" data-file-height="532"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 123px;height: 180px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Milton_paradise.jpg/123px-Milton_paradise.jpg" data-alt="Title page of John Milton's Paradise Lost, featuring an ſt ligature and a nub on the long s" data-width="123" data-height="180" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Milton_paradise.jpg/184px-Milton_paradise.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Milton_paradise.jpg/245px-Milton_paradise.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Title_page" title="Title page">Title page</a> of <a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Paradise_Lost" title="Paradise Lost">Paradise Lost</a>, featuring an ſt <a href="/wiki/Ligature_(writing)" title="Ligature (writing)">ligature</a> and a nub on the long s</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><a href="/wiki/File:GASTHAUS.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Unusual capital form of long s in Ehmcke-Antiqua typeface"><noscript><img alt="Unusual capital form of long s in Ehmcke-Antiqua typeface" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/GASTHAUS.png/180px-GASTHAUS.png" decoding="async" width="180" height="45" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="175"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 180px;height: 45px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/GASTHAUS.png/180px-GASTHAUS.png" data-alt="Unusual capital form of long s in Ehmcke-Antiqua typeface" data-width="180" data-height="45" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/GASTHAUS.png/270px-GASTHAUS.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/GASTHAUS.png/360px-GASTHAUS.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Unusual capital form of long s in Ehmcke-Antiqua typeface</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Flurkreuz_bei_Hohenfurch_(errichtet_1953).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wayside cross near Hohenfurch, Germany, erected 1953, showing the long s in a roman typeface"><noscript><img alt="Wayside cross near Hohenfurch, Germany, erected 1953, showing the long s in a roman typeface" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Flurkreuz_bei_Hohenfurch_%28errichtet_1953%29.jpg/129px-Flurkreuz_bei_Hohenfurch_%28errichtet_1953%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="129" height="180" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1418" data-file-height="1974"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 129px;height: 180px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Flurkreuz_bei_Hohenfurch_%28errichtet_1953%29.jpg/129px-Flurkreuz_bei_Hohenfurch_%28errichtet_1953%29.jpg" data-alt="Wayside cross near Hohenfurch, Germany, erected 1953, showing the long s in a roman typeface" data-width="129" data-height="180" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Flurkreuz_bei_Hohenfurch_%28errichtet_1953%29.jpg/194px-Flurkreuz_bei_Hohenfurch_%28errichtet_1953%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Flurkreuz_bei_Hohenfurch_%28errichtet_1953%29.jpg/258px-Flurkreuz_bei_Hohenfurch_%28errichtet_1953%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Wayside_cross" title="Wayside cross">Wayside cross</a> near <a href="/wiki/Hohenfurch" title="Hohenfurch">Hohenfurch</a>, Germany, erected 1953, showing the long s in a roman typeface</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><a href="/wiki/File:M%C3%BCnchen_Marienklause_Kapelle_Gedenktafel_(Detail).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Detail of a memorial in Munich, Germany, showing the text Wasser-Aufsehers-Gattin ('water attendant's wife') containing a long s adjacent to an f"><noscript><img alt="Detail of a memorial in Munich, Germany, showing the text Wasser-Aufsehers-Gattin ('water attendant's wife') containing a long s adjacent to an f" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/M%C3%BCnchen_Marienklause_Kapelle_Gedenktafel_%28Detail%29.jpg/180px-M%C3%BCnchen_Marienklause_Kapelle_Gedenktafel_%28Detail%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="50" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="777" data-file-height="217"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 180px;height: 50px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/M%C3%BCnchen_Marienklause_Kapelle_Gedenktafel_%28Detail%29.jpg/180px-M%C3%BCnchen_Marienklause_Kapelle_Gedenktafel_%28Detail%29.jpg" data-alt="Detail of a memorial in Munich, Germany, showing the text Wasser-Aufsehers-Gattin ('water attendant's wife') containing a long s adjacent to an f" data-width="180" data-height="50" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/M%C3%BCnchen_Marienklause_Kapelle_Gedenktafel_%28Detail%29.jpg/270px-M%C3%BCnchen_Marienklause_Kapelle_Gedenktafel_%28Detail%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/M%C3%BCnchen_Marienklause_Kapelle_Gedenktafel_%28Detail%29.jpg/360px-M%C3%BCnchen_Marienklause_Kapelle_Gedenktafel_%28Detail%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Detail of a memorial in <a href="/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a>, Germany, showing the text Wasser-Aufsehers-Gattin ('water attendant's wife') containing a long s adjacent to an f</div> </li> </ul></div></div></div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Long_s&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: See also" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9F" title="ß">ß (Eszett)</a> – Letter of the Latin alphabet; used in German</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insular_S" title="Insular S">Insular S</a> – Insular form of the letter S (Ꞅ)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Esh_(letter)" title="Esh (letter)">Esh (letter)</a> – Character and IPA symbol (Ʃ, ʃ)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Integral_symbol" title="Integral symbol">Integral Symbol (∫)</a> – Mathematical symbol used to denote integrals and antiderivatives</li> <li><a href="/wiki/R_rotunda" title="R rotunda">R rotunda</a> – Variant of the Latin letter R (ꝛ)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_I" title="Long I">Long I</a> – Letter variant</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sigma" title="Sigma">Sigma</a> – Eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet (Σ) similarly has two lowercase forms, ς in word-final position and σ otherwise</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cool_S" title="Cool S">Cool S</a> - stylized children's doodle of the letter S</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Long_s&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Notes" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-7 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-7"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> Depending on whether they appear in the end or middle of a word, respectively. Some texts starting from the late 18th century had it exclusively replace the first s, however. A more detailed explanation follows below. </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a> For fuller information, Attar cites: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFNash2001" class="citation journal cs1">Nash, Paul W. (2001). "The Abandoning of the Long 's' in Britain in 1800". Journal of the Printing Historical Society (3): 3–19.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+the+Printing+Historical+Society&rft.atitle=The+Abandoning+of+the+Long+%27s%27+in+Britain+in+1800&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=3-19&rft.date=2001&rft.aulast=Nash&rft.aufirst=Paul+W.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALong+s" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a> The still-unpublished manuscript of this Sketch is held by the <a href="/wiki/Shetland_Museum_and_Archives" class="mw-redirect" title="Shetland Museum and Archives">Shetland Museum and Archives</a>. </li> </ol></div></div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(8)"><h2 id="References">References</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Long_s&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: References" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-8 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-8"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Babelstone-2">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Babelstone_2-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Babelstone_2-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Babelstone_2-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Babelstone_2-3">d</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWest2006" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Andrew_West_(linguist)" title="Andrew West (linguist)">West, Andrew</a> (June 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2006/06/rules-for-long-s.html">"The Rules for Long S"</a>. Babelstone (blog). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200801025335/https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2006/06/rules-for-long-s.html">Archived</a> from the original on 1 August 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2019.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Babelstone&rft.atitle=The+Rules+for+Long+S&rft.date=2006-06&rft.aulast=West&rft.aufirst=Andrew&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.babelstone.co.uk%2FBlog%2F2006%2F06%2Frules-for-long-s.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALong+s" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBerger2016" class="citation book cs1">Berger, Sidney (2016). The Dictionary of the Book: A Glossary for Book Collectors, Booksellers, Librarians, and Others. 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[LL use of L SOLIDus]</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=solidus&rft.btitle=The+Concise+Oxford+Dictionary+of+Current+English&rft.pages=829&rft.date=1917&rft.aulast=Fowler&rft.aufirst=Francis+George&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fconciseoxforddic00fowlrich%2Fpage%2F829%2Fmode%2F1up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALong+s" class="Z3988"> (The name shilling <a href="/wiki/%C2%A3sd" title="£sd">is derived</a> from a Roman coin, the <a href="/wiki/Solidus_(coin)" title="Solidus (coin)">solidus</a>.) </li> </ol></div></div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(9)"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Long_s&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: External links" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-9 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-9"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><noscript><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/40px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 40px;height: 40px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/40px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png" data-alt="" data-width="40" data-height="40" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/60px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/80px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Look up <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/long_s" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:long s">long s</a> or <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C5%BF" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:ſ">ſ</a> in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.</div></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237033735"><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><noscript><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 30px;height: 40px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" data-alt="" data-width="30" data-height="40" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Long_s" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Long s">Long s</a>.</div></div> </div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMoore" class="citation web cs1">Moore. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://imgur.com/gallery/0sVAa">"A Simple Explanation of the Correct Usage of Long and Short S"</a>. 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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langes_s" title="Langes s – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Langes s" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Alemannisch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_hir" title="S hir – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="S hir" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_llarga" title="S llarga – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="S llarga" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dlouh%C3%A9_s" title="Dlouhé s – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Dlouhé s" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langt_s" title="Langt s – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Langt s" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langes_s" title="Langes s – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Langes s" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikk_s" title="Pikk s – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Pikk s" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_larga" title="S larga – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="S larga" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_long" title="S long – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="S long" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B8%B4_s" title="긴 s – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="긴 s" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_lunga" title="S lunga – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="S lunga" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%94" title="S ארוכה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="S ארוכה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littera_s_longa" title="Littera s longa – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Littera s longa" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lange_s" title="Lange s – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Lange s" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%95%B7%E3%81%84s" title="長いs – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="長いs" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%82ugie_s" title="Długie s – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Długie s" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_longo" title="S longo – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="S longo" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_S" title="Длинная S – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Длинная S" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_s" title="Lang s – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Lang s" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target">Scots</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dlh%C3%A9_s" title="Dlhé s – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Dlhé s" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitk%C3%A4_s" title="Pitkä s – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Pitkä s" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A5ngt_s" title="Långt s – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Långt s" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B3%D0%B0_s" title="Довга s – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Довга s" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" 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