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That fact seems dubious, does tzatziki not count?
by xnorswap 4y ago
That fact seems dubious, does tzatziki not count?
- eCa 4y agoIs tzatziki the only word that both starts and contains, but doesn’t end, with ts sound?
- eesmith 4y agotsetse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsetse_fly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsetse_fly
- denton-scratch 4y agoTzatziki, Tsetse and Tzar are not English words; OP said there was just one English word (which he identified as "pizza", which isn't an English word).
- xnorswap 4y agoIt has foreign roots but it's surely an English word by any workable definition.
- eesmith 4y agoAnd "tsetse" has been used in English for nearly 100 years longer than pizza - the latter only really introduced because of Allied soldiers sent to in Italy. Google Ngram says it wasn't until the 1970s when "pizza" was more commonly used than "tsetse." https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=tsetse%2Cpizza&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=tsetse%2Cpizza... . Or from BoingBoing today, "North Americans feared and misunderstood pizza in the 1950s" - https://boingboing.net/2022/11/21/north-americans-feared-and-misunderstood-pizza-in-the-1950s.html https://boingboing.net/2022/11/21/north-americans-feared-and... .