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when did we stop using f and replaced it with s

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enrique10 | 13:13 Mon 21st Feb 2011 | Arts & Literature
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Formaly in our language we used the letter f instead of s unless it was plural , when did this change
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some reading here :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
13:20 Mon 21st Feb 2011
I ssume you mean FORMERLY.
I think that the change occured in the 18th century, but I'm sure this can be Googled.
...and I assume I meant ASSUME!
Is there a connection here with the long s? I just Googled it and there's some info on Wikipedia.
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Thanks for the deliberate mistake Mark as you spotted quite quickly i am not very bright(or should that be brite)
As I thought...it was not an 'f',but actually just another form of 's'.

http://www.earlyameri...rlyamerica/howto.html
Who's Mark?
In a similar vein, the Y in Ye Olde Websitee is not a Y.

It is derived from Thorn which is just an anglo saxon way of writing Th
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Yorn surelth ?
Thou could be right!
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Looking at enrique's question, 2011 looks like the year we changed the spelling of "Formerly"

He has a great career in front of him; he could out-perform Andrew Carnegie who chaired the commission that screwed up the English language in the USA - center, jewelery, realizing etc etc.. But then Carnegie was dyslexic.
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Thanks for shattering my self confidence lads, one of you is correct i am like Carnegie but no dyslexic , but LOADED
Zeuhl,
Thou couldST be right! surely ?
'f' was still being used in print until at least 1798. i don't really get the 'long s' argument, because the book i'm reading (digitised copy of 1798 edition) uses 'f' for all 's' usages, short and long.

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