- How did the letter Z come to be associated with sleeping snoring?
"How and when did the letter Z become to be associated with sleeping?" First of all, zzzz (or z-z-z-z) is sound of snoring, from at least 1918 (Sometimes "a tiny saw cutting through a log" [1948] would be used, and both the snore and saw would make the same z-z-z-z sound ) Over time, this became associated with sleep in general, but most comic reference books (e g 2006's KA-BOOM! A
- Why is the English sound for sleeping zzzzzzzzzzz? : r . . . - Reddit
Seeing zzzzz just looks like either a buzz, or zedzedzedzedzed to me But in the American pronunciation of Z, 'zee', this reads like zeeeeeeee, which almost sounds like the exhalation of a snore, or inhalation through a blocked nostril
- Is “zzzzz” the most common spelling to represent a person sleeping . . .
Closed 13 years ago What is the most common or correct spelling of "zzzzz"? (1) zzzzz (5 letters) (2) zzzz (4 letters) (3) zzz (3 letters) My question stems from when I first wrote it as "zzzzz" (5 letters) in an English text, but a friend told me it should have been written as "zzzz" (4 letters) so I decided to ask here
- etymology - Origins of zzzzz (indicating sleep) - English Language . . .
It is common to use zzzzz (or some other number of z letters) to indicate that the "speaker" is asleep What is the origin of such a usage?
- ELI5: Why are Zs associated with sleeping? - Reddit
"First of all, zzzz (or z-z-z-z) is sound of snoring, from at least 1918 (Sometimes "a tiny saw cutting through a log" [1948] would be used, and both the snore and saw would make the same z-z-z-z sound ) Over time, this became associated with sleep in general, but most comic reference books (e g 2006's KA-BOOM! A Dictionary of Comic Book Words, Symbols Onomatopoeia, 2008's Comic books: how
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- Do Russian people snore like ззззззззззз? : r AskARussian
66 votes, 16 comments In comics and whatnot, it's common to see snoring written as zzzzzzzzzzzz Is it the same in Russian?
- Strange ZZZZZ folder in my C: directory : r techsupport - Reddit
trueWindows 7 fully updated This folder contains nearly ~19,000 files in ~150 sub-folders In each sub-folder you can find many different Z type files C: C
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