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