The Western Greek alphabet used in Cumae was adopted by the Etruscans and Latins in the 7th century BC, over the following centuries developing into a range of Old Italic alphabets including the Etruscan alphabet and the early Latin alphabet. In other Italic alphabets Venetic, Lepontic , the letter could be represented as a zig-zagging line of any number between three and six strokes.

The familiar S-shape with three strokes is present in the earliest Latin inscriptions of the 6th century BC Duenos Inscription , Praeneste fibula , but with four strokes on the Garigliano Bowl rather than three.

The familiar rounded S-shape is present regularly in the Old Latin inscriptions of the 2nd century BC Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus. It remained standard in western writing throughout the medieval period and was adopted in early printing with movable types. It existed alongside minuscule "round" or "short" s , which was at the time only used at the end of words.

In Spain, the change was mainly accomplished between the years and In France, the change occurred between and Printers in the United States stopped using the long s between and In English orthography, the London printer John Bell — pioneered the change. Encyclopaedia Britannica 's 5th edition, completed in , was the last edition to use the long s. It is the regular ending of English third person present tense verbs.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the letter of the alphabet. For other uses, see S disambiguation. For ESS, see ESS. For technical reasons , "S " redirects here.

For the programming language, see Script. For the archaic medial form of the letter 's', see long s.

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Shin letter , Sigma , San letter , and Sho letter. The interpretation as "tooth" is now prevalent, but not entirely certain. The Encyclopaedia Judaica of reported that the letter represented a "composite bow". In Wilson, Nigel Guy. Encyclopedia of ancient Greece. Nick Nicholas, Non-Attic letters Archived at Archive.

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