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Not to forget the long S [0]. I got pretty confused with it the other day, when reading a old French book (a Lavoisier memoir on diamond combustion). It seems t
by MayeulC 10y ago
Not to forget the long S [0]. I got pretty confused with it the other day, when reading a old French book (a Lavoisier memoir on diamond combustion). It seems to have been quite popular in a variety of languages, giving the (nowadays) German ß.
While this is technically an "s", the way it was written "ſ" can be confusing, as it is quite close to "f".
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
- JacobAldridge 10y agoI did a university course on Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe - reading text that talked about familiars (mostly cats) "sucking on their mistress" took some getting used to with the long "s"!
- ben0x539 10y agoThis is my favorite bit long-S trivia: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sun%2Cfun&year_start=1600 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sun%2Cfun&year...
- amyjess 10y ago> While this is technically an "s", the way it was written "ſ" can be confusing, as it is quite close to "f". And when set in italics, it looks like the integral symbol: ſ (depending on your font, it may or may not have a descender) In fact, this is where Leibniz got the idea for the integral symbol: it stood for ſumma, Latin for "sum".
- nl 10y agoI had a bad experience on a bus in Vienna, trying to work out where the hell something "straBe" was, when the bus kept announcing "straße" Yes, my German is pretty bad.