The Letter S

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This feature is all about S. S-pecially for you ;-)

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1) Why is the letter S a complicated letter?

2) What is the early Egyptian hieroglyph of the "s" sound symbolize?

3) The Phoenicians adapted this Egyptian hieroglyph and called it "sameth". What change did the Phoenicians make of it?

4) The Phoenicians used a character (that looks like our letter W) to produce the "sh" sound.  What did they call it?

5) The Greeks "s" sound is represented by a character that looks like our capital M lying on its side.  What did they call it?

6) The Romans used this Greek letter (that is mentioned in question 5). What does the Roman version look like?

7) What do 17th century English manuscripts (that is used to represent the long "s" sound) look like?  

8) The Germans used a letter to represent the double lowercase "s". What does it look like?


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