Sep 28, 2011 · How did the word come into English with the two variants czar and tsar? The 'ts' spelling is a transliteration of the Russian 'царь', but the 'cz' spelling is what interests me more. To me it looks

Jul 29, 2015 · Russian emperors are usually referred to as "Tsars" or "Czars". However, while the first spelling (Tsar) utilises the standard English transliteration of the Cyrillic ц as ts, the second transliter...

Apr 21, 2018 · The inverted commas are there to aid comprehension, not to satisfy some punctuation tzar. In the first pair of examples, "The side of the street is called the 'sidewalk' " emphasises the …

Jun 25, 2015 · I want to describe, in a phrase, a number of traits in a person. I'm looking to describe a self-righteous, pious person who cannot stop bragging about her/his moral values while trying to …

Sep 25, 2014 · For example, a lanky guy could be called "a versta of Kolomna", since centuries ago mile posts (actually, versta posts) installed by the Tzar's decree along the road from Moscow to Kolomna …