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[DanaC]

As I recall, the long S was traditionally used when the letter was at the beginning (except if the word was capitalised) or in the middle of a word, but not when it ended a word - where the letter s ended a word, they used the modern short form.

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Originally Posted by DanaC

As I recall, the long S was traditionally used when the letter was at the beginning (except if the word was capitalised) or in the middle of a word, but not when it ended a word - where the letter s ended a word, they used the modern short form.

And Ye, as in Ye Olde Ellipsis, is not actually a Y sound but is a ligature form of th, so Ye Olde Ellipsis would have been pronounced The Old...

Although I have seen the long form of s used willy nilly in some documents. There was an article somewhere about the gradual standardization of fpelling.

Not a ligature! It is a corruption of the letter Thorn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)