Concept
S
Overview
S (minuscule: s) is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ess (pronounced ), plural esses.
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After proper names ending in =s=, =ſs=, =z=, used possessively, put an apostrophe, omitting the apostrophal _s_; thus =Voſs’ Luiſe=, =Demoſthenes’ Reden=, =Horaz’ Oden= (Voss’s _Louise_, Demosthenes’ _Speeches_, Horace’s _Odes_). But put =Schillers Gedichte= (Schiller’s Poems). 18.
Oxford University Press, Rules for compositors and readers at the University Press, Oxford
Names S several times; states what S is.
SOCRATES: I wish that you would give me a similar definition of the S. THEAETETUS: But how can any one, Socrates, tell the elements of an element? I can only reply, that S is a consonant, a mere noise, as of the tongue hissing; B, and most other letters, again, are neither vowel-sounds nor noises. Thus letters may be most truly said to be undefined; for even the most distinct of them, which are the seven vowels…
Plato, Theaetetus
The chapter “EUCLID'S SERVANT READS.” is titled for S; states what S is.
1 Malory’s Romance of King Arthur and the Quest of the Holy Grail. Edited by Ernest Rhys. 2 Thoreau’s Walden. With Introductory Note by Will H. Dircks. 3 Thoreau’s “Week.” With Prefatory Note by Will H. Dircks. 4 Thoreau’s Essays. Edited, With an Introduction, by Will H. Dircks.
David Hume, Hume's Political Discourses
Names S several times; the book is titled for S.
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