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S is the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet. S may also refer to: History * an Anglo-Saxon charter's number in Peter Sawyer (historian), Peter Sawyer's, catalogue Language and linguistics * Long s (ſ), a form of the lower-case letter s formerly used where "s" occurred in the middle or at the beginning of a word * -s, a suffix added to some English surnames, originally meaning "son of" * , the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol for a voiceless alveolar sibilant sound * S, the Subject (grammar), subject of an intransitive verb * Ѕ, the Cyrillic letter Dze * Տ, the Armenian letter Tyun (Armenian letter), tyun * Ⴝ, the Georgian Asomtavruli letter ch'ari Transportation * S (New York City Subway service), one of the three services: ** Franklin Avenue Shuttle ** 42nd Street Shuttle (also called the Grand Central/Times Square Shuttle) (internally referred to as the 0) ** Rockaway Park Shuttle (also called Rockaway Shuttle) (internally referred to as the H) * Toei Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglo-Saxon Charter
Anglo-Saxon charters are documents from the History of Anglo-Saxon England, early medieval period in England which typically made a grant of Real Estate, land or recorded a Privilege (legal ethics), privilege. The earliest surviving charters were drawn up in the 670s: the oldest surviving charters granted land to the Roman Catholic Church, Church, but from the eighth century, surviving charters were increasingly used to grant land to lay person, lay people. The term ''charter'' covers a range of written legal documentation, including diplomas, writs and Will and testament, wills. A diploma was a royal charter that granted rights over land or other privileges by the king, whereas a writ was an instruction (or prohibition) by the king which may have contained evidence of rights or privileges. Diplomas were usually written on parchment in Latin, but often contained sections in the vernacular, describing the bounds of Estate (land), estates, which often correspond closely to modern pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
