Category: S&w Serial Number Dating

Otherwise, pre-consonantal and word-final s is all the time pronounced /s/. There are, however, a number of words in which ss may – optionally – be pronounced /z/ (e.g. Fussel, Massel, quasseln, Schussel). The minuscule type ſ, referred to as the long s, developed within the early medieval interval, inside the Visigothic and Carolingian palms, with predecessors in the half-uncial and cursive scripts of Late Antiquity. It remained normal in western writing all through the medieval period and was adopted in early printing with movable sorts. It existed alongside minuscule "round" or "brief" s, which was on the time only used at the finish of phrases. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic. "The cancer within them is beginning to spread, and we've…