{"id":15368,"date":"2018-04-13T17:07:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T16:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=15368"},"modified":"2018-04-13T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T16:07:10","slug":"zed-zee-or-izzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=15368","title":{"rendered":"Zed, Zee or Izzard?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Zed<\/p>\n

The letter Z is known as zed<\/strong> [z\u025bd] in the UK, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia, and as zee<\/strong> [zi\u02d0] in American English.<\/p>\n

The name zed comes from the Greek name for the letter \u0396 \u03b6 zeta<\/strong> (\u03b6\u03ae\u03c4\u03b1). The name zee is comes from an English dialectal form of the 17th century, and rhymes with other letter names, like bee, cee, dee, etc.<\/p>\n

Another dialectal name for this letter from the 18th century is izzard<\/strong> [\u02c8\u026az\u0259rd], which possibly comes from the Occitan iz\u00e8da<\/em> or the French \u00e9zed<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The letter Z has had a number of different forms in different alphabets:<\/p>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

It’s origins can be traced back to an Egyptian Hieroglyph which looked like the Proto-Sinaitic version, which meant sword or weapon.<\/p>\n

Names for the letter Z in other languages include:<\/p>\n