Satirist Stan Freberg takes a humorous jab at the long s in his comedy album, The United States of America—The Early Years. Ben Franklin complains to Thomas Jefferson that all the s’s in the Declaration of Independence look like f'’s.
To answer my own question you type 017F and then Alt+X. I also found it in the Adobe Caslon Pro special characters in the Latin Extended-A section. Again in HTML it is (without the spaces)
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S or F
Satirist Stan Freberg takes a humorous jab at the long s in his comedy album, The United States of America—The Early Years. Ben Franklin complains to Thomas Jefferson that all the s’s in the Declaration of Independence look like f'’s.
Rules for long s usage
For more information on the rules for using the long s, go to http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2006/06/rules-for-long-s.html
Thanks, Ilene
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Long s
How do you actually insert this character in MS Word or Dreamweaver. I can't find it anywhere.
Typing long s in Word
To answer my own question you type 017F and then Alt+X. I also found it in the Adobe Caslon Pro special characters in the Latin Extended-A section. Again in HTML it is (without the spaces)
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