S&w Serial Number Dating

Otherwise, pre-consonantal and word-final s is all the time pronounced /s/. There are, nonetheless, a couple of words during which ss might – optionally – be pronounced /z/ (e.g. Fussel, Massel, quasseln, Schussel). The minuscule type ſ, referred to as the lengthy s, developed in the early medieval period, within the Visigothic and Carolingian arms, […]