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	'''S''' is the nineteenth letter in the modern ]. Its name in ] is spelled '''ess''' or occasionally '''es''' ({{pronEng\|ɛs}}), generally ''es-'' when part of a compound word, plural '''esses'''.<ref>"S" ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "ess," op. cit.</ref>

	==History==

	; spine) and not "Šîn". In ] and ], the {{IPA\|}} value was maintained, and only in modern languages has the letter been used to represent other sounds, such as ] {{IPA\|}} in ] and ] (before p, t) or the ] {{IPA\|}} in English, ] and ] (in English ''rise''; in French ''lisez'' (="read" imperative plural); in German ''lesen'' (="to read").

	Care must be taken for incompletely anglicized words from German and proper names from that language. The trigraph "sch" is pronounced like the English digraph "sh." When S is followed either by a p or t, it is pronounced with the same "sh" sound, but when starting a word followed by a vowel, it is pronounced like the English "z," (not the German one).

	{{IPA notice}}
	An alternative form of ''s'', ſ, called the ] or medial ''s'', was used at the beginning or in the middle of the word; the modern form, the short or terminal ''s'', was used at the end of the word. For example, "sinfulness" is rendered as "ſinfulneſs" using the ''long s''. The use of the ''long s'' died out by the beginning of the ], largely to prevent confusion with the ] '']''. The ligature of ſs (or ſz) became the ] '']'' ( ß ).

	In a high-school ] ] used in the 1960s, a text discussing the discovery of ]s in animal tissue by the English biologist ] was photostatically reproduced, including the long "s." The explanation read, "The type is quaint, but once you notice that an ''s'' is often much like an ''f,'' you fhould have little trouble reading it."
	The long ''s'' has often been parodied in ], including the usage "Poor Alfred'f Almanack."

	S is one of the most commonly used letters of the Latin Alphabet in Basic English language.

	==Codes for computing==
	{{Letter
	\|NATO=Sierra
	\|Morse=···
	\|Character=S
	\|Braille=⠎
	}}
	In ] the ] S is U+0053 and the ] s is U+0073.

	The ] code for capital S is 83 and for lowercase s is 115; or in ] 01010011 and 01110011, correspondingly.

	The ] code for capital S is 226 and for lowercase s is 162.

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	]]s in ] and ] are "<tt>&#83;</tt>" and "<tt>&#115;</tt>" for upper and lower case respectively.

	== Similar letters and symbols ==
	* Ş, ş — S-]
	* ], š — S-caron
	* {{Unicode\|], ș}} — S with comma below (used in ])
	* {{Unicode\|], ś}} — S with acute accent (used in ])
	* ], ŝ — S with circumflex accent (used in ])
	* {{IPA\|ʂ}} — S with hook (used in the ] for the ])
	* {{Unicode\|Ṡ, ṡ}} — S with ] above (used in old ])
	* {{Unicode\| ], ṣ}} — S with dot below (used in ] ])
	* {{Unicode\|Ṥ, ṥ}} — S with acute and dot above
	* {{Unicode\|Ṧ, ṧ}} — S with caron and dot above
	* {{Unicode\|Ṩ, ṩ}} — S with dots below and above
	* {{Unicode\|], ƨ}} — reversed S (used in ] transliteration)
	* ſ — ]
	* {{IPA\|ʃ}} — ] (used in the ] for the ])
	* ∫, ∫ — the ] sign
	* $ — the ]
	* ß — the ] '']'' or "sharp s"
	* Ѕ, ѕ — ] letter ]
	* -dd — Is treated with an "S" sound in Gaelic, especially at the end of words
	* ] the Section Sign

	== See also ==
	{{Commons\|S}}
	For other meanings and uses of the letter "S", see ].

	{{Latin alphabet}}

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