Lang s
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The lang, medial or descendin s (ſ) is a kynd o the minuscule letter 's' what wis uised whar 's' occurred in the mids or at the stair o a ward, faur ensaumple ſinfulneſs ("sinfulness"). The modren letterform wis cried the terminal or cuttie s.
Modren uise
The lang 's' is representit in Unicode bi the sign U+017F in the Latin Extended-A range, an may be representit in HTML as ſ or ſ.
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The lang 's' survives in elangatit form, an wi an italic-style bowt descender, as the integral symbol ∫ uised in calculus; Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz based the chairacter on the Laitin word summa (sum), whilk he clarkt ſumma. This uise first appeart for public in his paper De Geometria, publisht in Acta Eruditorum o Juin, 1686,[1] bit he haed uised it in private manuscripts syne at least 1675.[2]
In lingueestics a siclike glyph (ʃ) (cried "esh") is uised in the International Phonetic Alphabet, in whilk it soonds the voiceless postalveolar fricative, the first soond in the Scots word shae.
In Scandinavian an German-spakin kintras, relics o the lang ſ haud on in signs an logaes whit uise various kynds o fraktur typefaces. Ensaumples include the logaes o the Norrowegian newspapers Aftenpoſten an Adresſeaviſen; the packagin logae faur Finnish 'Siſu' pastilles; an the Jägermeiſter logae.
Anither survival o the lang s wis the abbreviation uised in Scots an Inglis for shillin, as in 5/-, whar the forrit slash stood in faur the lang s whilk haed been lang forgotten bi aw bit antiquarians.