‘Middle English often replaced “S” with “F”.’
what is called Middle English by Shakespeare’s time had developed into what we know today as Modern English through morphological changes such as the Great Vowel Shift and other linguistic issues...early ModE often used the marker resembling a small ‘f’ within words containing ‘s’...this can be seen in some colonial printings...
Thank you.
Today’s autocorrect took my “Thank you” above and tried to write it “Yankees you” but I wouldn’t let it.
English today is trying to go paleo on us all.