but many languages, such as japanese and italian, do! the doubled up z indicates such a long consonant, which became realized as a "t" before the "z" in english!
edit: apparently "zz" is actually pronounced "ts" in italian, which is pretty cool!!
i like video games and their music!
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in reply to @tati's post:
At risk of sounding extremely unhelpful: from Italian, where the -zz- has the standard pronunciation "-ts-"
I think there's some background with shifting orthography and/or pronunciation from Latin, but I absolutely lack any expertise to say any further
Yeah basically this, though pizza is thought to be a loan from Greek pita into Neopolitan and presumably the i induced palatalization of the t to a [ts] sound which is the norm for Italian varieties
