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This is very interesting:https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/google-ngrams-vs-long-s/ https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/google-ngrams-vs... T

• bildung 7y ago
  Well the OCR were humans :) Before Google produced the Waymo (or Maps?) datasets with recaptcha, it was book digitalization. I remember always being frustrated when I had to enter the long as as f to make the captcha go away...
  • qxnqd 7y ago
    That's true. When the recaptcha was two words, one of it was the control word (which would make you fail the captcha if wrong) and the other was the word you were actually OCR'ing. I would always enter the control word correctly and put "fuck" as the other word. I would get it right 90% of the time :)
  • KwanEsq 7y ago
    Heh, I just modified my keyboard layout to add the long s as the alt gr output for s. Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator was pretty handy (There were other keys I customised to justify creating my own layout variant) [0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/823010/the-microsoft-keyboard-layout-creator https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/823010/the-microsof... [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=22339 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=223...
• spirographer 7y ago
  You can actually use the google ngrams data set to determine that the long s was eliminated from print over a 25 year period roughly from 1795 to 1820.