Middle English, Middle French zede, Late Latin zeta zeta, Greek zÄta Middle English zed, zedde, Old French zede, Late Latin zeta, Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zeta), Hebrew zayin with the influence of beta, eta and theta. The letter had a rare unusual use in Old English, for example in bezt, where it represented “ts” (compare the German, Italian and Finnish pronunciations of Z). For the feeling of sleep, see zzz. The zombie meaning comes from the first letter. Duplicate Zeta. Related to Spanish Zeta, German Zett, French Zède, Italian Zeta and possibly Portuguese Zê. I called it “zed,” but the editor said it was “zee,” and I didn`t dispute that. Zed, zed, n. the letter Z, also called Zee and Izzard: a metal bar similar in shape to the letter Z. In Britain, the last letter of the alphabet is known as zed. If your name is Lizzie, you write it with two zeds. From the Middle English soden, sode (“ooze”, past participle of sethen), where the vowel was derived from other forms of the verb. The man behind some of the complaints is Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism.
I don`t quite understand how a man is accused of being called zed, nor how Z is a useless letter. Warship zed so much, the last time I show, and nothing to the contrary. Ali`s father was beaming when he was consulted and heard his own term applied to the Gorel-zed propulsion system. If you are from England, Canada or New Zealand, the alphabet ends in zed, while in the United States it is pronounced zee. In most English-speaking countries, a complete understanding of a subject means understanding it from A to Z. Zed, from the Greek zÄta, was originally one of many words for Z, including izzard, uzzard, and zod. Americans may have chosen to use Zee in the 1600s to distinguish themselves from the British. zed (zeds present simple in the third person singular, present participle zedding, past simple and past participle zedded) (mainly Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, South Africa).
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