S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide.
On calendars, S is most times the short letter for Saturday or Sunday, or the month September. In chemistry, S is the symbol for sulphur. In Wheel of Fortune, S is one of the six letters given to any contestant participating in the "Bonus Round."
Short S was sometimes used before letters with left-side ascenders, like b, f, or long ſ, which the top curl of a long S would overlap, making the sequence either difficult to print or unaesthetic, hence e.g. whisker instead of whiſker. An alternative was to insert a space between the long S and the ascender (whiſ ker), or use a ligature. [1]
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