Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme) these stanzas were viewed as quatrains with internal rhymes, this would be an example of ballad form, a common form for nursery rhymes. The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his "National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs" (1870). The Roud Folk Song Index, which catalogues folk songs and their variations by number, classifies the song as 10266. The phrase "Jack and Jill" was in use in England as early as the 16th century to indicate a boy and a girl. A comedy with the title "Jack
S the last edition to use the long "s". In German orthography, long "s" was retained in Fraktur (Schwabacher) type as well as in standard cursive (Sütterlin) well into the 20th century, and was officially abolished in 1941. The ligature of "ſs" (or "ſz") was retained, however, giving rise to the "Eszett", "ß" in contemporary German orthography. The letter is the seventh most common letter in English and the third-most common consonant after and . It is the most common letter in starting and ending position. In English and several other languages, primarily Western Romance ones like Spanish and French, final