Ben Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette , like any good eighteenth-century document, makes liberal use of the "long s" -- the one that looks like an f -- amusingly in this case. The difference between a long s and an f is that the cross-stroke doesn't go all the way through the s.
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why do they use that S and then the s' on the end are normal? Is it because it is a long S and the other is normal?
Yeah, its a last little leftover of language from Queen Victoria's husband Price Albert :)
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