Editing S (section)

{{Short description|19th letter in the Latin alphabet}}
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{{About|the nineteenth letter of the alphabet}}
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{{Infobox grapheme
| name = S
| letter = S s
| variations = [[Long s|ſ]]
| script = [[Latin script]]
| type = [[Alphabet]]
| typedesc = ic and [[logographic]]
| language = [[Latin language]]
| phonemes = {{flex list|{{IPAslink|s}}|{{IPAslink|z}}|{{IPAslink|ʃ}}|{{IPAslink|θ}}|{{IPAslink|ts}}|{{IPAslink|ʒ}}|{{IPAc-en|ɛ|s}}}}
| unicode = U+0053, U+0073
| alphanumber = 19
| number = 
| fam1 = <hiero>Aa32</hiero><hiero>M40</hiero>
| fam2 = [[File:Shamash.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Sinaitic Shin]]
| fam3 = [[File:Proto-semiticS-01.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Sinaitic Shin]]
| fam4 = [[File:Phoenician_sin.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Phoenician Sin]]
| fam5 = [[File:Proto-Canaanite - shin.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Caanite Shin]]
| fam6 = [[Sigma|Σ σ ς]]
| fam7 = [[ς]]
| fam8 = [[𐌔]]
| usageperiod = {{circa}} 700 BCE to present
| children = {{flex list|[[long s|ſ]]|[[ß]]|[[Ƨ]]|[[Ꞅ]]|[[$]]|[[₷]]|[[§]]|{{not a typo|[[℠]]}}|[[ᛋ]]|[[∫]]}}
| sisters = {{flex list|[[Dze|Ѕ]] [[Dze|ѕ]]|[[С]] [[с]]|[[Ш]] [[ш]]|[[Щ]] [[щ]]|[[Ҫ]] [[ҫ]]|[[Ԍ]] [[ԍ]]|[[Shin (letter)|ש]]|[[Shin (letter)|ش]]|[[Shin (letter)|ܫ]]|[[س]]|[[ࠔ]]|[[𐎘]]|[[𐡔]]|[[ሠ]]|[[ㅅ]] (disputed)|[[Ս]] [[ս]]|[[श]]|[[स]]|[[શ]]|[[સ]]}}
| equivalents = 
| associates = [[List of Latin-script digraphs#S|s(x)]], [[Sh (digraph)|sh]], [[Sz (digraph)|sz]]
| direction = Left-to-right
| image = Latin_letter_S.svg
| imageclass = skin-invert-image
}}
{{Latin letter info|s}}

'''S''', or '''s''', is the nineteenth [[Letter (alphabet)|letter]] of the [[Latin alphabet]], used in the [[English alphabet]], the alphabets of other western [[Languages of Europe|European languages]] and other [[latin alphabet]]s worldwide. Its name in English is [[English alphabet#Letter names|''ess'']]{{efn|Spelled 'es'- in compound words}} (pronounced {{IPAc-en|'|ɛ|s|audio=LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-S.wav}}), plural ''esses''.<ref>"S", ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]],'' 2nd edition (1989); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "ess," op. cit.</ref>