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S is the 19th letter in our alphabet. It was also a letter in the alphabet of the ancient Semites, who once lived in Syria and Palestine. They called the letter shin, meaning tooth. The Phoenicians took over the Semitic letter and gave it a more regular shape, and the Greeks turned it on its side. See Alphabet.

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