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Friday, 15 April 2016

Language change: what to say about the long s

If you have a text from the 1700s, it may contain the long s. this orthography became obsolete during a long-term process of simplification that the language is still undergoing (what is fading synchronically?).

This Wikipedia page has some good content to link in as part of a discussion of diachronic change - ignore the middle section on other languages and make sure you read the last section.

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