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Basic Latin alphabet
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd
Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh
Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn
Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt
Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz

S is the nineteenth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English (pronounced /ˈɛs/) is spelled ess, or usually es- when part of a compound word; the plural is esses.^[1]

[edit] Usage

S represents the voiceless alveolar fricative /s/ in most languages; it also commonly represents the voiced alveolar fricative /z/, as in the Portuguese mesa, the English does, or the German sein. It is often used at the end of an English word to denote the plural, such as in dogs or pages. It may also represent the voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ], as in Hungarian and German (before p, t).

[edit] Codes for computing

Alternative representations of S

NATO phonetic	Morse code
Sierra	···

Signal flag	Flag semaphore	Braille

In Unicode, the capital S is U+0053 and the lower case s is U+0073.

The ASCII code for capital S is 83 and for lowercase s is 115; or in binary 01010011 and 01110011, correspondingly.

The EBCDIC code for capital S is 226 and the code for lowercase s is 162.

The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "S" and "s" for upper and lower case respectively.

[edit] See also

С, с - Es (Cyrillic) Ц, ц - Tse (Cyrillic) Σ, σ - Sigma (Greek) Ƨ, ƨ — reversed S (used in Zhuang transliteration) ſ — long s $ — the dollar sign ∫, ∫ — the integral sign

ß — the German Eszett or "sharp s" ʃ — Esh (used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for the voiceless postalveolar fricative) Ѕ, ѕ — Cyrillic letter Dze -dd — Is treated with an "S" sound in Gaelic, especially at the end of words § the Section Sign

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[edit] References

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