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Actually… Why is it "Lizard" but "Blizzard"? "z" sounds exactly the same as "zz"
English: "Because fuck you, that's why."
lesarde >> lizard (c. 700-1300 ad) - slow process over hundreds of years of evolving from a mix of languages but at this point heavily influenced by the French
unknown etymology, maybe blitzartig >> Blizzard (1870) coined overnight by a newspaper guy in the era of muck raking, yellow journalism and the birth of the tabloid.
I propose we pronounce the izz in blizzard similarly to pizza.
/ˈbli.d͡zɑɹd/
For consistency. And definitely not so that we can lead into it with a mamma mia.
you say "pizza" like "pee-jarred?"
I think you mean just /ts/ not /dz/
The first "z" belong to the "bliz", so it's more like bliz-zard.