“capercailzie” (a kind of bird) is pronounced, and sometimes spelled, “capercaillie”. As with the surname Dalziel, the silent z is really a mistaken transliteration of an old Scottish word that contained a yogh, a letter that sounds like a y but looks like a z.
6 Comments on "A Silent Z"
fivebee says
February 10, 2014 @ 16:58
rondezvous
john edwin dodd says
July 21, 2015 @ 12:37
Oyez
fivebee says
December 1, 2015 @ 07:28
Oyez (Oy-yay)
Steve Si says
January 20, 2019 @ 18:47
The name Dalziel
D says
February 18, 2019 @ 13:23
laissez faire
JoeP says
October 3, 2019 @ 13:19
“capercailzie” (a kind of bird) is pronounced, and sometimes spelled, “capercaillie”. As with the surname Dalziel, the silent z is really a mistaken transliteration of an old Scottish word that contained a yogh, a letter that sounds like a y but looks like a z.
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