sambeckwith
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Fri Jul 1st 17:14 2005 / #1 |
According to this website, the English word "Czech" dates back to 19th-century Poland:
http://www.allwords.com/word-Czech.html
I've no idea, though, how the Polish spelling came to be part of the English language. |
peter
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Fri Jul 1st 18:52 2005 / #2 |
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I guess their role in it's been forgotten... |
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Rajit
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Fri Jul 1st 20:20 2005 / #3 |
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Back before Jan Hus reformed the Czech language, I think the people here used polish spelling, i.e. anything with a hacek these days used to have a z behind it - cz instead of c with hacek. I'm not sure about that, though. |
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elc.synergy-vs.cz
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Sat Jul 2nd 01:16 2005 / #4 |
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I have heard the same thing. Ä? used to be spelled cz.7 |
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Sabinka
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Mon Jul 18th 08:20 2005 / #5 |
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'Cuz it looks cool :D |
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Jefff
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Mon Jul 18th 09:37 2005 / #6 |
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Interesting... - thanks Rajit.. |
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Pacman
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Mon Jul 18th 11:35 2005 / #7 |
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Prussians? |
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Bobbo
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Mon Jul 18th 16:54 2005 / #8 |
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I thought it was an acronym for Chee Zee |
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Vickey
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Mon Mar 13th 09:55 2006 / #9 |
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Jan Hus' reforms made "cc" to be "Ä?", not "cz". |
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la
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Tue May 2nd 14:57 2006 / #10 |
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im asking myself same question - and i remember sometimes i used to see TCHE rather than CZ - i dont have a clue about the cz either... weird |
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You didnt know? :(
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Tue May 2nd 15:12 2006 / #11 |
Anything with TCHE is german
ie Tcheschisch is the german word for Czech |
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michacek
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Tue Oct 13th 10:04 2009 / #12 |
dates back to 14th century when there were still digraphs/ligatures in cz spelling, later on those changed
cz-c, rz-ø, w-v, zz-s etc.
so english got the word from that time probably when these digraphs (spøežky in eng) were used in polish as well (polish changed the least since then)
i only guess because i've always been wondering too :) |
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Puttra
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Fri May 14th 14:38 2010 / #13 |
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The letter combination -cz- is from Latin. |
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