Global InformationS information
| S | |||||
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| S s | |||||
| ſ | |||||
| Usage | |||||
| Writing system | Latin script | ||||
| Type | Alphabetic and Logographic | ||||
| Language of origin | Latin language | ||||
| Phonetic usage |
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| Unicode codepoint | U+0053, U+0073 | ||||
| Alphabetical position | 19 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Development |
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| Time period | ~-700 to present | ||||
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| Sisters |
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| Variations | ſ | ||||
| Other | |||||
| Other letters commonly used with | s(x), sh, sz | ||||
| Writing direction | Left-to-Right | ||||
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| ISO basic Latin alphabet |
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| AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz |
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ess[a] (pronounced /ˈɛs/), plural esses.[1]
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- ^ "S", Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "ess," op. cit.