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English orthography and Long s

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Difference between English orthography and Long s

English orthography vs. Long s

English orthography is the system of writing conventions used to represent spoken English in written form that allows readers to connect spelling to sound to meaning. The long, medial, or descending s (ſ) is an archaic form of the lower case letter s. It replaced a single s, or the first in a double s, at the beginning or in the middle of a word (e.g. "ſinfulneſs" for "sinfulness" and "ſucceſsful" for "successful").

Similarities between English orthography and Long s

English orthography and Long s have 5 things in common (in Unionpedia): Geoffrey Chaucer, German orthography, International Phonetic Alphabet, Italic type, Typographic ligature.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.

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German orthography

German orthography is the orthography used in writing the German language, which is largely phonemic.

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International Phonetic Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet.

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Italic type

In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylized form of calligraphic handwriting.

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Typographic ligature

In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined as a single glyph.

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English orthography and Long s Comparison

English orthography has 178 relations, while Long s has 96. As they have in common 5, the Jaccard index is 1.82% = 5 / (178 + 96).

References

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