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The History of the Long S | Grammarly
The story of the long s. The origins of the long s, ſ, can be traced all the way back to old Roman cursive, a script used in Rome for everyday, informal writing from the first century AD to about the third century. In this script, the letter s was written as a vertical downstroke with a small curve at the end of it, and a diagonal upstroke at ...
The Gradual Disappearance of the Long S in Typography
"Long 's' fell out of use in Roman and italic typography well before the middle of the 19th century; in French the change occurred from about 1780 onwards, in English in the decades before and after 1800, and in the United States around 1820.
Long s - Wikipedia
The long s ſ , also known as the medial s or initial s, is an archaic form of the lowercase letter s , found mostly in works of the late 8th to early 19th centuries. It replaced the single s , or one or both [a] of the letters s in a double- s sequence (e.g., "ſinfulneſs" for "sinfulness" and "poſſeſs" or "poſseſs" for "possess", but ...
Why does the letter 'S' look like an 'F' in old manuscripts?
To modern readers, the long s (written as 'ſ') might make you think you're catching misspellings or typos like "Congrefs" instead of "Congress" or "Loft" instead of "Lost." Look closer though...
The Long S – Pieces of History
The Long S. December 14, 2021 by Jessie Kratz, posted in - Constitution, - Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights. Bill of Rights Day is December 15. Visit the National Archives website for more information. Today’s post comes from Rachel Bartgis, conservator technician at the National Archives at College Park, MD.
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