What would you consider old

[adventurernumber1]

When a road gets bypaſſed, and the route deſignation gets put onto the bypaſs, the bypaſſed road becomes old. For example, Old Route 10 in Grantham, New Hampſhire, which is part of a ſet of roads with no outlet that is only acceſſible from I-89, Old Highway 78 in Stone Mountain, which I can't ſee as ever having been part of US 78 (although it muſt have been at one time if it has that name), and Old Route 66 acroſs the country.

I must admit to being confused by the replacement of every letter "s" by that unearthly character in this post. It looks like it needs to be read aloud by someone with a lysp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s

The ſ (long s) was also used in this thread, which was created during the whole AARoads Topics in [insert a certain year] fiasco several months ago, when there was an overload of threads like that.

However, I didn't know about the ſ (long s) until it was used in that thread, and then I knew about it. I believe it is associated with ancient English (or a different language), IIRC, so that is probably why 1 used it in this thread, which is regarding what we consider old.

The ſ (long s) is definitely old, there's no question about that.