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submitted 2 days ago by Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] DrFunkenstein@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This was fun! Anyone know about the ſ character? How come in the 1600s it only sometimes seemed to take the place of s?

[–] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 20 points 2 days ago

It’s purely stylistic, but here are the rules - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s#Rules

[–] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago

Some of the rules for the use of the long s from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s

Long s was always used (ſong, ſubſtitute), except:

Upper-case letters are always the round S; there is no upper-case long s.
A round s was always used at the end of a word ending with ⟨s⟩: his, complains, ſucceſs
- However, long s was maintained in abbreviations such as ſ. for ſubſtantive(substantive), and Geneſ. for Geneſis(Genesis).
Before an apostrophe (indicating an omitted letter), a round s was used: us'd and clos'd.
Before or after an f, a round s was used: offset, ſatisfaction.

[–] Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

It looks almost like the old german "S".