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2Eggwall t1_j2t85s2 wrote

Reply to comment by Dyslexic_Dog25 in TIL about the "Book of Negroes", an official record of 3,000 Black Loyalists, mostly former slaves, evacuated to Nova Scotia (and freedom) after the American Revolutionary War by Greene_Mr

It's the Long S. Spanish started exclusively using the short s around 1760, then it spread to France, then to English around 1890. Dropping it apparently saved on printing costs, so the change was rather rapid.

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