why is it spelled pizza? Why the two Z's?
106515
pizza is italian food...just they way they spell it
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Lots of confusion about this sort of thing. But here it is. Contra most of those posting here, you DO add the apostrophe s after a singular noun ending with an s or z sound... and you also pronounce it.\n\nThus it is:  Marcus's (pronounced, roughly, Markus-ez)\n\nThis is, in fact, "Rule #1" in William Strunk's classic Elements of Style.\n\nAn excerpt:\n\n Form the possessive singular of nouns with 's.\n       \n Follow this rule whatever the final consonant. Thus write,  \n      Charles's friend\n      Burns's poems\n      the witch's malice\n   \n\n[He goes on to explain the very limited exceptions]\n\nExceptions are the possessives of ancient proper names in -es and -is, the possessive Jesus', and such forms as for conscience' sake, for righteousness' sake. But such forms as Achilles' heel, Moses' laws, Isis' temple are commonly replaced by       \n      the heel of Achilles\n      the laws of Moses\n      the temple of Isis\n\nhttp://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk.html\n\n------------------------------\n\nThere is similar confusion when it comes to how to form the plurals and their possessives for nouns whose singular form ends with s/z.    The basic approach is similar.  That is, you almost always follow the SAME rules as for singulars that do NOT have such endings!  Combining the two, we get:\n\nJohn Adams (singular)\nJohn Adams's temper(singular possessive)\nthe Adamses (plural)\nthe Adamses' marriage (plural possessive)
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It's probably a replacement word for using Jesus' name improperly.  I also use "holy swiss," and "cheese and rice" as replacements in polite enough company.
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the alphabet backwards
39308
The "Z" in Dragonball Z is just used to differentiate between the "Dragonball" and the "Dragonball Z" series.  Creator Akira Toriyama just wanted to \n1) show a difference between this series and Dragonball, and \n2) provide a sense of closure - being that he meant for Dragonball Z to be the last of the series. \n\nDragonball GT came later, and the GT stands for "Grand Tour"
192418
"Colour," along with others like "honour" and "splendour" are the way the British spell the words, while here in the US we typically spell them without the "u."  Other common differences are that we use "z" (and pronounce it "zee" while they say "zed") far more often in words ending in "ize." So while we "colorize" films, they "colourise" them.  Other variants exist, like "gray" here and "grey" there, but none of them are actually incorrect, just variants that see more use in one region than another.
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we don't use k,l,m,n anymore. The letters are s,p,d and f. They refer to the different shapes of the shells(orbitals)
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I also think that way...\n\nWell have u ever wondered why there is not a single alphabet  for the "sh" as in shine, or "ph" in Philadalphia, \n\nwhy there is need of the silent alphabets in different words ... like t in listen...?\n\nWhy there are 2 words for single meaning, or why there are so many meanings for one word?\n\nwhy the spelling for Psychology is not sykology???\nOr for Physics, it is "fiziks"\netc...\nLikewise there are thousands of things that are ununderstand able....\n\nSo isn't it a stupid language???\n\nBy the way it is the language that GAYS speak.\nAs in all England....
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To the meanie above me, donut can be spelled EITHER way...look it up. But to answer your question, no I do not. I don't like sweet stuff that much, I am sweet enough on my own. :o)\n\nI really would like some nachos right now though.\n\nTo iAmHot: If you were a donut, I'd eat you all day too. :o)
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Corazón - everyone's getting it.\n\nBy the way, in Spain 'z' is pronounced like 'th' in English, but not in the Americas.
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your pronunciation is correct, but it is spelled:\ndziadziu
506253
Literally, it just means "pizza in the Brasilian way", as of Brazilians usually do or know how to make pizzas. Perhaps the waiter was shocked that somebody might actually like Brazilian pizzas and not Italian ones.\n\n...unless there is something sexual in all that and we both miss the point....
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From A to Z you say?  Okay let me figure this out....after analyzing the alphabet....I'm somewhere between S and T. Now that I see it in print ...I see some missing letters that form a word we say often when we are angry...lol lol lol.....I'm retired....and enjoying yahoo answers....addicted you might say.....thanks for this fun question...
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Maybe the letters Z or L...
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More pizza please, research done.
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Pizza.....    mmmmmmm.... pizzzzaaaaa
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The Hungarian translation of grapes (the fruit) is 'szőlő'.\nAbout pronunciation:\n'sz' -> 's' and 'ő' is like 'i' in the word "girl", or more correctly like 'eu' in the french word "feu"\nBtw: in some areas in Hungary it is told and written as szöllő ('ö' is pronunced exactly as like 'i' in the word "girl")