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- Is “zzzzz” the most common spelling to represent a person sleeping?
My question stems from when I first wrote it as "zzzzz" (5 letters) in an English text, but a friend told me it should have been written as "zzzz" (4 letters) so I decided to ask here More confusion arises from the following source because Susan Ince, the journalist, uses "zzz" (3 letters):
- How did the letter Z come to be associated with sleeping snoring?
Edit: Another Wikipedia page: The big Z It is a convention in American comics that the sound of a snore can be reduced to a single letter Z
- Why is the English sound for sleeping zzzzzzzzzzz? - Reddit
Seeing zzzzz just looks like either a buzz, or zedzedzedzedzed to me But in the American pronunciation of Z, 'zee', this reads like zeeeeeeee, which almost sounds like the exhalation of a snore, or inhalation through a blocked nostril
- ELI5: Why are Zs associated with sleeping? : r explainlikeimfive - Reddit
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- etymology - Origins of zzzzz (indicating sleep) - English Language . . .
It is common to use zzzzz (or some other number of z letters) to indicate that the "speaker" is asleep What is the origin of such a usage?
- Why does the letter zzzzz represent sleeping? : r . . . - Reddit
The title says it all Zzz is an onomatopoeic representation of snoring It was commonly used in media where sound effects were not an option, notably in comic books
- What does ZZZ mean? : r leagueoflegends - Reddit
No When someone who speaks English says it, they usually mean they're sleeping The English usage has been around longer than the Korean, people use it without ever having seen the Korean version, and I'll wager that it was used in an online game before the Korean version too
- ELI5: How did ZZzZZzzz come to represent sleep and how did . . . - Reddit
The onomatapoeia theory is, as far as I'm aware, correct stemming from 1852 It's first published use was from Henry Thoreau who referenced the sound of sleeping locusts when he first wrote "…the dry-z-ing of the locusts is heard "
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