Z

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Z is the twenty-sixth and final letter of the modern Latin alphabet.

In many dialects of English, the letter's name is pronounced zed /zɛd/, reflecting its derivation from the Greek zeta (see below). In American English dialects, however, its name is pronounced zee /ziː/, deriving from a late 17th-century English dialectal form. Another English dialectal form is izzard, which dates from the mid-18th century, probably deriving from the French et zède, meaning "and z," or else from "s hard." A variant izzed is the predominant form in anglophone South Asia.

Other Indo-European languages pronounce the letter's name in a similar fashion, such as zet in Dutch, zède in French, zett in German, zeta in Italian and Spanish, in Portuguese, and se (ze) in Russian.