Otherwise, pre-consonantal and word-final s is all the time pronounced /s/. There are, nonetheless, a few words by which ss could – optionally – be pronounced /z/ (e.g. Fussel, Massel, quasseln, Schussel). The minuscule kind ſ, known as the long s, developed in the early medieval interval, throughout the Visigothic and Carolingian palms, with predecessors […]