Useless trivia: The ſ is also one of the two letters which the letter ß, exclusive to the German alphabet as far as I know, consists of. The other is the z, in its old way of writing (much in the same way as the ancient Greek zeta). Consequently, the letter is called sz in much of Germany (in southern Germany, it is called "sharp s"), and in some old German books and maps with Latin script, you can find words like "Groß" or "Straße" written "Grosz" or "Strasze". This is mostly the case in capital lettering (i.e. "GROSZ" and "STRASZE"), because there is no capital ß. These days, however the capital ß is written SS ("GROSS", "STRASSE"), and the ß has become very rare, mostly replaced with ss, since the much-disputed spelling reforms a couple of years ago.