The First Old English Script

Anglo-Saxon monks in the Northern monasteries gradually began to adapt this script to their native old English language. Even though the script resembles modern lowercase letters, there are a few exceptions. The letter S had three different shapes, one of which resembled our modern letter S. Many documents from the Revolutionary War period in the United States still used that elongated S. But printers eventually discarded the elongated S, and they began using the shorter version which we still use today.