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Why is the letter Z associated with sleep?
- corin_ 14y ago"you know what they call sleeping in the UK? Catching some zeds." We do? Literally never heard that, not a single time. As to the fact that it comes from snoring... am I the only one who thought it was obvious as soon as I read the title?
- bitdiffusion 14y agoNot a word, exactly, but certainly a variation of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia
- hnriot 14y agoz in the US is pronounced zee, in the UK zed, so certainly not an example of onomatopoeia for Brits, or a particularly good example for Americans. It's certainly a stretch to attribute it this way.
- corin_ 14y agoI don't know about in American, but in the UK it's not that "zed" is onomatopoeic, it's "zzz" which is just the sound a z makes in a word, not "zedzedzed" or "zeezeezee". And that's why it comes from snoring.
- Peroni 14y agoHere's a more pertinent question: Why is this on the front page?