Z is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the modern Latin alphabet. In many dialects of English, the letter's name is zed, reflecting its derivation from the Greek zeta (see below). In American English dialects, its name is zee /ziː/, deriving from a late 17th-century English dialectal form. Another English dialectal form is izzard or izzed /ˈɪzɚd/, which dates from the mid-18th century and probably derives from the French et zède "and z". This is the predomin… (More on Z)