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Z or z is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the Latin alphabet. It is used in the modern English alphabet , in the alphabets of other Western European languages, and in others worldwide. Its usual names in English are zed ( / ˈ z ɛ d / ), which is most commonly used in British English and zee ( / ˈ z iː / ), most commonly used in North ...
The letter eth (Ð ð) was later devised as a modification of dee (D d), and finally yogh (Ȝ ȝ) was created by Norman scribes from the insular g in Old English and Irish, and used alongside their Carolingian g. The a-e ligature ash (Æ æ) was adopted as a letter in its own right, named after a futhorc rune æsc.
After the Roman conquest of Greece in the 1st century BC, Latin adopted the Greek letters Y and Z (or readopted, in the latter case) to write Greek loanwords, placing them at the end of the alphabet. An attempt by the emperor Claudius to introduce three additional letters did not last.
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In Polish, the character Ƶ is used as an allographic variant of the letter Ż (called "Z with overdot") although once used in Old Polish. In Greek, the character Ƶ is a handwritten form of the letter Xi ξ , where the horizontal stroke distinguishes it from Zeta ζ .
Russia’s defense ministry has not explicitly commented on the use of the letter in its current context, but did post on Instagram last week that the pro-war symbol stems from the Russian phrase ...
Z, symbol for atomic number (the number of protons in an atom's nucleus) Z, symbol for compressibility factor (a thermodynamic property) Z, symbol for metallicity (the mass proportion of an astronomical object that is neither hydrogen nor helium) Z, abbreviation for carboxybenzyl (an organic compound)
In Grassley’s blistering 11-page letter to Wray last month, he slammed the FBI for acting as an "accomplice to the Democrats’ false information campaign" surrounding his investigation into ...