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The word, as well as the system, is obsolete except as a curiosity; the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has only one citation for it. [4] [5] As well as being a mathematical oddity, it survives as a linguistic oddity: zenzizenzizenzic has more Zs than any other word in the OED. [6] [7]
In Finnish, the letter ž is used in loan words, džonkki and maharadža, and in romanization of Russian and other non-Latin alphabets. In Finnish and Estonian, it is possible to replace ž with zh when it is technically impossible to typeset the accented character. [3] In Hungarian, the corresponding letter is the digraph Zs.
This list of all two-letter combinations includes 1352 (2 × 26 2) of the possible 2704 (52 2) combinations of upper and lower case from the modern core Latin alphabet.A two-letter combination in bold means that the link links straight to a Wikipedia article (not a disambiguation page).
In cases where two words are differentiated solely by the presence of an accent, the one without the accent is put before the other one. ... zs: 0.021% ty <0.010%
Signage on Polish municipal police (Straż Miejska) cars uses both the standard form (Ż, on the door) and the variant with horizontal stroke (Ƶ, on the roof sign). In the Polish language, ż is the final, 32nd letter of the alphabet.
pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words). (a) = acronym, e.g.: SARS – (a) severe acute respiratory syndrome (i) = initialism, e.g.: CD – (i) compact disc
ssj is used for the sje sound /ɧ/ in a few Swedish words between two short vowels, such as hässja "hayrack". ssz is a long Hungarian sz , [sː]. It is collated as sz rather than as s . It is only used within roots; when two sz are brought together in a compound word, they form the regular sequence szsz .
Long vowels and diphthongs have a tone, regardless of their position in the word. This includes the so-called "mixed diphthongs", composed of a short vowel followed by a sonorant. There are three types of tones: level (also drawling, sustained) tone (stieptā intonācija) high throughout the syllable e.g., loks [ˉluɔ̯ks] ('spring onion')