Timeline for Is it wrong to pronounce "pizza" as "peedtza"?
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| Mar 3, 2012 at 10:53 | comment | added | DaG | Actually, in Italian the written letter "z" may correspond in different words to two different sounds: /ts/ (for instance in "zio", uncle) and /dƷ/ (for instance in "zona", zone). The first one, in its long form, is the one in "pizza". | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 13:18 | comment | added | Andrey | Italian definetely has it.wikipedia.org/wiki/D and Greek en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_(letter) . But letter Z is pronounced differently in both of them. As in German btw (e.g. Zurich is pronounced as Tsurisch (last three as same sound, again, no such sound in English) | |
| Dec 15, 2010 at 0:14 | history | answered | Joel Salisbury | CC BY-SA 2.5 |