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Z (named zed /ˈzɛd/' or zee /ˈz/) is the 26th and final letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

In most English-speaking countries, including Britain, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia, the letter's name is zed /ˈzɛd/, reflecting its derivation from the Greek zeta (this dates to Latin, which borrowed X, Y, and Z from Greek, along with their names), but in American English its name is zee /ˈz/, analogous to the names for B, C, D, etc., and deriving from a late 17th century English dialectal form.

Another English dialectal form is izzard /ˈɪzərd/. This dates from the mid-18th century and probably derives from Occitan izèda or the French ézed, whose reconstructed Latin form would be *idzēta, perhaps a popular form with a prosthetic vowel.


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