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long z

long z noun: synonym of ezh, the letter Ʒ, ʒ.

Noun

long z

  1. (rare) Synonym of ezh, the letter Ʒ, ʒ.
    • The rarest consonant sound in English is the one that linguists represent as /ʒ/, called ‘long z’ or simply ‘ezh’.2010, R. L. Trask, “Why is English spelling so eccentric?”, in Why Do Languages Change?, Cambridge University Press, page 139
    • They consist of the arrow-shaped mark applied above the ‘number’, one guillemet-shaped sign each to its left and right, and a zig-zag-shaped sign (resembling a ‘long z’, ʒ) below it.2014, Jost Gippert, “New Perspectives of (Multi-)Spectral Manuscript Analysis”, in Christian Brockmann, Daniel Deckers, Lutz Koch, Stefano Valente, editors, Handschriften- und Textforschung heute....
    Synonyms:
    ezh

Synonyms of long z

Questions about long z

What does long z mean?
Long z means synonym of ezh, the letter Ʒ, ʒ.
What part of speech is long z?
Long z is a noun.

Words near long z in the dictionary

  1. long whist
  2. long white radish
  3. long white radishes
  4. Long Wittenham
  5. Long Xuyên
  6. long z
  7. Long'an
  8. long'd
  9. long, long lost
  10. Long-a-Coming
  11. long-acting

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