Serendipitously, Language Hat just posted a link to this very thorough 
account of the rules for long s. It's probably more than you ever 
thought you would want to know, and points out some very interesting 
exceptions to the basic rule:

http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2006/06/rules-for-long-s.html

On 1/4/2011 8:35 AM, Jan Kammert wrote:
> Thank you SO much to all of your who answered my question about the long
> s. I didn't even know what that letter was called.
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