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A rounded kind appeared during the Chalcidian alphabet, and from this it was taken into Latin. Etruscan had no rounded type, but it surely seems in Umbrian and Faliscan. In England in the seventeenth century a looped form was introduced, which is sometimes even now seen in handwriting when followed by One more sAll S&L S&P A/S a/s/l pound s/he S/N