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Z (named ''zed'' ' or ''zee'' 〔"Z", ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "zee", ''op. cit''.〕) is the 26th and final letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. ==Name and pronunciation== In most English-speaking countries, including Britain, Canada, India, Ireland, and Australia, the letter's name is 'zed' , 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' , analogous to the names for B, C, D, etc., and deriving from a late 17th century English dialectal form.〔One early use of "zee": 〕 Another English dialectal form is izzard . It dates from the mid-18th century and probably derives from Occitan ''izèda'' or the French ''ézed'', whose reconstructed Latin form would be '' *idzēta'',〔"Z", ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "zee", ''op. cit''.〕 perhaps a popular form with a prosthetic vowel. Other languages spell the letter's name in a similar way: ''zeta'' in Italian, Basque, Spanish, and Icelandic (no longer part of its alphabet but found in personal names), ''zäta'' in Swedish, ''zæt'' in Danish, ''zet'' in Dutch, Polish, Romanian, and Czech, ''Zett'' in German (capitalised as noun), ''zett'' in Norwegian, ''zède'' in French, ''zê'' in Portuguese, and ' in Vietnamese. Several languages render it as or , e.g. ''zeta'' or in Finnish. In Standard Chinese pinyin the name of the letter Z is pronounced , although the English 'zed' and 'zee' have become very common. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Z」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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