Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 26 days agoHow far back in time can you understand English? This site goes back by centuries allowing you to test yourself.www.deadlanguagesociety.comexternal-linkmessage-square2linkfedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkHow far back in time can you understand English? This site goes back by centuries allowing you to test yourself.www.deadlanguagesociety.comQuilotoa@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 26 days agomessage-square2linkfedilink
minus-squareDrFunkenstein@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·26 days agoThis was fun! Anyone know about the ſ character? How come in the 1600s it only sometimes seemed to take the place of s?
minus-square5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·26 days agoSome 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.
This was fun! Anyone know about the ſ character? How come in the 1600s it only sometimes seemed to take the place of s?
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: