minus-square5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.orgtoMildly Interesting@lemmy.world•How far back in time can you understand English? This site goes back by centuries allowing you to test yourself.linkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month 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. linkfedilink
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: