short s

See also: shorts

English

Alternative forms

• short ess

Noun

short s (plural short s's)

1. The s character, as distinct from the long s — the ſ character.

   Synonyms: round s, terminal s

   Coordinate term: long s

   • 1888 November, The American Bookmaker: A Journal of Technical Art and Information, […], volume VII, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Howard Lockwood & Co., […], page 146:

     Most of it was in modern face of a bad cut, small pica size; the apocrypha was in long primer, old style face, although having short s’s, but the peculiarity was that one signature in the Psalms was in old style with long s’s.

   • 2004, Richard-Gabriel Rummonds, “Preface”, in Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress, Oak Knoll Press, page xxxiii:

     The following changes have silently been made: long s’s have been changed to short s’s;

Translations

the character s

• German: in fraktur: s; in antiqua: rundes s n, Rund-s n, kurzes s n

Further reading

• long s on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Horsts, Stohrs, horsts