Re: Long S (was: dotless j)

From: Curtis Clark (jcclark@csupomona.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 13 1999 - 00:31:49 EDT

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At 01:39 AM 7/12/99 -0700, Otto Stolz wrote:
>The Long S is used at the start of syllables, whilst the Round S is
>used at the end.

The use in English was somewhat different; long s was ordinarily used
medially, and round s finally, so that a double medial s in English would
ordinarily be long-long, even if it was at a syllable divide.

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