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Message:: [QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 65685, member: 57463"]Liberty And Ivstice For All The rule is that the first s of a two esses, or an s alone in the MIDDLE of a word, but neither the first nor last s has the elongated form: Congrefs. A similar rule is followed in Greek, where the lower case sigma has a different form for the beginning or middle than at the end. In Arabic, these forms differences are many.  They also appear in other alphabets and kinds of writing. In American English cursive writing, we slightly modify the forms of letters depending on which they are attached to br being a little different from ar. In German, the double-s has a B-shape and is also called the s-zet, from the time 500 years ago or less when a word like "die StraBe"  ("die Strasse" = the street) would have been spelled "s t r a s z e" -- I mention this as being the most common and accessible explanation of the long-S in older English. And then there is always the one that trips up people unfamiliar with US coinage, the Peace Dollar with IN GOD WE TRVST.[/QUOTE]