John Hudson <tiro at tiro dot com> wrote: >> English practice was generally, I think, to write the long s first >> but _printed_ double s is always two tall longs, certainly in the >> 18th century: > > I have seen numerous examples of printed English longs+s from the 18th > century.
You would expect to, if the sequence appears at the end of a word and if the rule for English is as I understand it (s in final position, Å otherwise). See, for instance, the word "paÅs" in the contemporary printed version of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
