Re: German 0364 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER E

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sun Dec 28 2003 - 22:59:33 EST

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    John Hudson <tiro at tiro dot com> wrote:

    >> English practice was generally, I think, to write the long s first
    >> but _printed_ double s is always two tall longs, certainly in the
    >> 18th century:
    >
    > I have seen numerous examples of printed English longs+s from the 18th
    > century.

    You would expect to, if the sequence appears at the end of a word and if
    the rule for English is as I understand it (s in final position, ſ
    otherwise). See, for instance, the word "paſs" in the contemporary
    printed version of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.

    -Doug Ewell
     Fullerton, California
     http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/



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