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How did the letter Z become to be associated with sleeping/snoring? (english.stackexchange.com)
43 points by personjerry on Nov 23, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


Interesting....a friend of mine has a daughter learning Greek. She asked if Greek comics used "ΩΩΩΩΩΩΩ" (Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet) to depict snoring.

I wanted to know the answer, so I embarked on a journey of Greek comic searches for people snoring and eventually I found this comic [1]. It shows people using Greek to communicate, but then the person sleeping is saying "ZZZZZZZ". I find it hilarious and interesting because Greek doesn't have the letter Z.

[1] - https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/t1.0-9/1...


Greek does have the letter Ζ, which is the capital Greek zeta. It is written just like the Latin capital Z.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeta


Derp, you're right. I knew that.



Isn't that more semiotics than etymology?




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