tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post6180580326874624263..comments2024-03-28T16:41:29.596-04:00Comments on The Duchess of Devonshire's Gossip Guide to the 18th Century: Okay, Enough with the Fs Already!Heather Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544318718074061879noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post-15896972744312736622009-10-20T08:12:50.970-04:002009-10-20T08:12:50.970-04:00@ Aileen
Yes you are correct! its a remnent of the...@ Aileen<br />Yes you are correct! its a remnent of the 'fraktur' script which also used the long S. <br />The unlaut is also a rement from the fraktur script; lower case Es were writted more like an N and often this was put above the letter rather than next to it, this is why either ue/ae or ü ä is correct.Roselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16712160352016656586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post-70069946498848520332009-10-18T03:21:38.688-04:002009-10-18T03:21:38.688-04:00Isn't it related to the German letter s-set? ...Isn't it related to the German letter s-set? ß<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F<br /><br />That's what I always assumed after 2 years of German at my Lutheran k-8 school.Aileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03561045971486547836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post-74900168884209618192009-10-16T14:22:40.186-04:002009-10-16T14:22:40.186-04:00Aesthetically, the f and long s look pretty simila...Aesthetically, the f and long s look pretty similar in many fonts. You should find however that there is either no cross-stroke, or that it is only on the left side (as if you began to cross the f, but stopped halfway). You can see this in <a href="http://gemma.notzen.com/wiki.pl/long_s" rel="nofollow">the image I made</a> a while back of some words with f's and s's in.<br /><br />Note that the long-s is a lower-case character only. A capital S will look like a modern one, even if it's not at the end of a word. (E.g. Spanifh, not Fpanifh!)<br /><br />See also: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia article</a>.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06165501925414836147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post-11198239677735252362009-10-16T09:09:30.488-04:002009-10-16T09:09:30.488-04:00I'm in the middle of reading `the other bolyen...I'm in the middle of reading `the other bolyen girl` by Philipa Gregory, and just on the inside of the front and back cover is a printed letter from Ann Bolyen. I did wonder why their `s's` looked strange. It makes for a very confusing read but now this answers why.<br /><br />Thank youDRChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03352970077497112668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post-87577534785313009992009-10-15T18:43:35.012-04:002009-10-15T18:43:35.012-04:00Uh, I would've been happy enough if this had b...Uh, I would've been happy enough if this had been the most usual custom in Sweden at the time, but oh no! <br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/yg2335a<br /><br />Sure, you get used to it after a while but when it's smudgy and badly printed it's headache almost every time.Madame Berghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386828638786159478noreply@blogger.com