long s

He dragged the car through the mud of a long S bend.

"You will observe, Watson, the alternative use of the long s and the short.

In truth, these long s'ances had worn her out, and she was ill indeed.

It no longer S appeared lazy or lethargic down here, half a kilometer P underground.

Hoefler Text incorporates automatic ligatures, the round and long s, real small capitals, old style figures and swashes.

I may be American, but I am familiar with the orthographic peculiarity that was the "long S" in the 18th century.)

In order to accommodate the new, longer S stock trains, which started operating certain Metropolitan line services in August 2010, platforms 1 and 4 have been extended.

It looped in a long S curve under the Spit Hearth skyrail and shot up again, riding the updrafts in the hot night, coming in towards the station.

These involve historical figures such as the Master of the Knights Templar and Conrad of Montserrat (the historical Conrad of Montferrat: Scott mistook the F for a long S in his researches).

The Latin Extended-A block has been in the Unicode Standard since version 1.0, with its entire character repertoire, except for the Latin Small Letter Long S, which was added during unification with ISO 10646 in version 1.1.

Until the nineteenth century, the ſ or long s was also used for words in the Dutch language, but was then replaced with the regular s. The ligature æ was sometimes used (for example in the name Æneas Mackay), but today the letters a and e would replace this letter.

I. Another survival of the long s was the abbreviation used in British English for shilling, as in "5 -", where the shilling mark " " stood in for the long s which had been long forgotten by all but antiquarians.