A rounded kind appeared during the Chalcidian alphabet, and from this it was taken into Latin. Etruscan had no rounded kind, but it seems in Umbrian and Faliscan. In England within the 17th century a looped kind was launched, and this is once in a while still noticed in handwriting when followed by A different sAll S&L S&P A/S a/s/l pound s/he S/N