LONGS

Long s

The long, medial or descending s is a form of the minuscule letter s formerly used where s occurred in the middle or at the beginning of a word, for example "ſinfulneſs" . The modern letterform was called the terminal, round, or short s.

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long s

Noun

  1. The ſ character, as distinct from the short s — the s character.


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