Talk:S

Turkish S cedilla

In Related letters, the Turkish S cedilla is missing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.247.248.111 (talk) 15:35, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

It's mentioned at "S with diacritics". (CC) Tbhotch^™ 16:45, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

Devanagari श

Which has an /ś-/ sound. Origin, or original inspiration for the S? -There is a Fabric Throughout all of Reality (talk) 18:47, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

The Latin alphabet is several centuries older than Devanagari. The ancestral letter 𑀰 is even less like S, though one might fancifully connect it with Greek Σ. —Tamfang (talk) 23:45, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Hyperlink for "S with overdot"

There is now a seperate Wikipedia article for Ṡ/ṡ/ẛ ("S with dot" or "S with overdot"). It would be more helpful if the anchor text "Ṡ ṡ ẛ" in the section on related characters linked to that instead of the page about dot diacritics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.1.48.221 (talk) 08:59, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

 Done --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 13:05, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

Please remove the long S from the front Quick Fact section, it's misleading, make a section for it!!

It's misleading to place the long s in the quick section area, it's not used anymore. Imagine you are an alien and you are trying to learn the Latin alphabet, you are going to get the impression that the long s is the widely used lowercase letter. We should talk about it in a section. Restfultree2022 (talk) 23:03, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

@Restfultree2022: I agree that the long s should not be given equal prominence in the infobox; I have moved it to the "variations" parameter. There is already a section about the long s. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:17, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

I think the introduction is not consistent.

Read along the path, all the introductions except this are written in full form of ordinary number like seventeenth, eighteenth but this is written as 19th. I suggest there should be a minor change from 19th to nineteenth to ensure consistency. 2001:EE0:4BC7:1FE0:3DA6:7723:C1A5:5A75 (talk) 12:43, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Now fixed. Shantavira|^{feed me} 14:40, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

writing S

• "S's are tricky"
• The most difficult symbol by far, at least for me, was the letter S (and the numeral 8, which uses the same procedure); in fact I spent three days and nights without sleep, trying to make the S look right, before I got it. At one point I even felt it would be easier to rewrite all my books without using any S's! After the first day of discouraging trials, I showed what I had to my wife, and she said, "Why don't you make it S-shaped?" page 361

Arlo James Barnes 09:24, 19 March 2024 (UTC)