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  1. small. soft. south. 's. 2. an ending used in writing to represent the possessive morpheme after most singular nouns, some plural nouns, especially those not ending in a letter or combination of letters representing an s or z sound, noun phrases, and noun substitutes, as in man's, women's, baby's, James's, witness's, (or witness' ), king of ...

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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › SS - Wikipedia

    S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ess (pronounced / ˈ ɛ s /), plural esses.

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  3. s, nineteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. It corresponds to the Semitic sin “tooth.” The Greek treatment of the sibilants that occur in the Semitic alphabet is somewhat complicated. The Semitic samech appears in Greek as Ξ (xi) with the value in early times of /ss/, later and more generally of /x/ or /ks/.

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  4. the 19th letter of the English alphabet. ‘Snow’ begins with (an) S/‘S’. Definition of S noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  5. Feb 20, 2024 · Short S was sometimes used before letters with left-side ascenders, like b, f, or long ſ, which the top curl of a long S would overlap, making the sequence either difficult to print or unaesthetic, hence e.g. whisker instead of whiſker. An alternative was to insert a space between the long S and the ascender (whiſ ker), or use a ligature.

  6. We use possessive 's to say that something or someone belongs to a person, is connected to a place, or to show the relationship between people. The possessive 's always comes after a noun. When something belongs to more than one person and we give a list of names, we put 's on the last name.

  7. 1 day ago · S is the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet. 2. S or s is an abbreviation for words beginning with s, such as 'south', 'seconds', and 'son'. 3. s. was a written abbreviation for shilling or shillings in Britain before decimal currency was introduced in 1971. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

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