short s
See also: shorts
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- 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;
