more participants at Jenny Matlock's Alphabet Thursday
Due to my vintage age or sun burnt brain, I skipped one letter and therefore was at the end of this meme already last week.(see here).
In the hope there would be another letter after Z, I learned thanks to Wikipedia that Z is the twenty-sixth and final letter of the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Of course I didn't know what ISO meant. Certainly not the male version of the name Isa. I googled and found out that ISO stands for "International Organization for Standardization". I tell you Blogging improves your general knowledge and maybe in a few years I will be named Mrs. Wikipedia.
I also learned that in earlier times, the English alphabets used by children terminated not with Z but with & or related typographic symbols. In her 1859 novel Adam Bede, George Eliot refers to Z being followed by & when her character Jacob Storey says, "He thought it [Z] had only been put to finish off th' alphabet like; though ampusand would ha' done as well, for what he could see.
Please don't ask me who George Eliot is, I give up !
This is the end of round "?" and therefore it ends with the letter Z !
z z z z z
PS. I found George Eliot in Wikipedia (I am too curious not to know)
Just to let you know that I constantly think of you and your cats, cats often protrayed to be ZZZZ? true?
ReplyDeleteZZZZ. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteFunny! I love looking stuff up as well and did so for my post this week.
ReplyDeleteLove your beautiful header and the clay hands.
ReplyDeleteGreat header shot ~ enjoy your zzz ~ thanks, carol, xxx
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how much I've learned since I started blogging! Great way to end this round!
ReplyDeleteI can't stand to not look something up either.
ReplyDeleteNice end to the meme...
Glad you looked up George Eliot -- I was going to suggest Wikipedia, LOL! That's interesting about the & at the end :)
ReplyDeleteMaybe smiley faces should be the new "last letter"...
Hi Gattina .. so easy to get behind or too far in front I find - but we carry on ... even if we zizzzz our way there ...
ReplyDeleteThe development of the alphabet is interesting isn't it .. cheers Hilary
Brilliant post to end this round. Hugs to you xx
ReplyDeleteI will know whom to ask when I can't find out about something... you are the Wiki expert!
ReplyDeleteGattina, I love the ending to your post--ZZZZZZZ! That's one of my favorite things!!
ReplyDeleteI never knew about &!
ReplyDeleteI like to know about stuff, too.
Aha, I was just about to tell you that George Eliot was a novelist in the 19th century. She was also a "SHE" - nothing to do with Z but I love Ann's take on the cats doing ZZZ. That's what all five of mine are doing right now -have been doing for the past four hours of daylight and will ZZZ until 4.45 or 5pm today! BTW Do you say: ZED or ZEE for the letter Z? Have a great weekend. (((Hugs))) Jo
ReplyDeleteI'm with you. Looking things up is compulsive with me, and so easy to do now, too. Thanks, Google!
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I always knew George Elliot was a woman and she is on my list of authors to read if I live long enough.
ReplyDeleteThese days I find google compulsive reading and am always looking something up.
Charlotte as always is ZZZZZZ.
Hi Ms Wikipedia! You may have more influence than you thought! I read a couple of weeks ago that a fellow blogger hosted a link-up because of you!
ReplyDeleteHours and hours can zoom by when I am on Wikipedia...
ReplyDeleteThere is all sorts of zany information on the internet!
Who knew the alphabet used to end in &...?
Thanks for linking to the letter "Z"!
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