Z is the twenty-sixth and final letter of the modern Latin alphabet. In many dialects of English, the letter's name is zed (), reflecting its derivation from the Greek zeta (see below). In American English dialects, its name is zee , deriving from a late 17th-century English dialectal form. Another English dialectal form is izzard or izzed , which dates from the mid-18th century and probably derives from the French et zède "and z". This 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 and Czech, zède in French, zett in German, zäta in Swedish, zeta in Italian and Spanish, and zê in Portuguese. History The name of the Semitic symbol was zayin, possibly meaning "weapon", and was t

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