S
Spellings
Capital	S
Bas-de-casse	s
Use
Alphabets	Latin
Order	19 th
Phonemes main	/ S / , / z / , / / ...

S is the ^19thletter and the ^15thconsonant in the Latin alphabet.

Origin

proto-Semitic	Sin Phoenician	Sigma Greek	S Etruscan	S Roman
Likely evolution of the grapheme

Linguistics

• S is a female name when you pronounce the letter Bachelor's and men when it pronounces itself. However, in France , in his pronunciation seems to be the most used and the overwhelming majority of the population considers the name as pronounced as male, most dictionaries being gradually same except the Littr. Note: this is so for the letters F, H, L, M, N, R and S.

servants in ^{eighteenth-century}

• Until the ^nineteenth century , s is traced differently depending on whether it was the end of the word (s) or not (say s long s ). They say she had an alternative pop. For example, 'sausages' could be written as "sausages" (or "sausages" or "sausages", with various ligatures which ).

Pronunciation

In French, the general rule is that "s" is pronounced when it is located between two vowels , and in all other cases (beginning of word, or between a consonant and a vowel - counts as Y vowel). It decides when it is rarely located at the end of a word, but intervenes in the links (it is pronounced in this case ).

Particular case, for a word beginning with "s" (thus pronounced ), it continues to impose when adding a prefix, even if the "s" finds himself between two vowels. Examples: antisocial asexuality.

Coding

Computer

• Code ASCII , ISO 8859-1 , Unicode :
  • Capital: 83 = 0053 U
  • Minuscule: U 115 = 0073

Radio

Audio file
S Morse Problems listening to the file?

• Spelling alphabet radio
  • International: Sierra
  • German : Samuel
• In Morse code , the letter S is " "
  • It is because of this simplicity that the standard distress signal reads SOS

Other

Signaling		Sign language		Writing Braille
Flag	Semaphore	French	Quebec

See also