Question by Trotskyite: Regarding the old Russian monarch: do you spell the title Tsar or Czar?
Just wondering.
This is supposed to be fun. I spell it Tsar. How do you spell it?
For f*ck sake! I don’t care about the history or the proper spelling in which country. I know both are considered correct. Just tell me how you personally spell it!
Nathaniel: Thank you for understanding the question.
Answers and Views:
Answer by witchip00
both are considered correct.
Read all the answers in the comments.
What do you think?
jan51601 says
I've spelled it both ways–especially in crossword or search-a-word puzzles. LOL In those cases, it depends on what letters I have already entered. Wikipedia says it can be spelled as TZAR and CSAR, too. The feminine spelling is TSARINA, etc.
Basically, it refers to Caesar.
Daniel Olszewski says
I would say tsar not tzar because when you say it you hear more of the sss not zzzz
muinghan says
I always use the spelling CZAR.
I think it just LOOKS more Old Russian.
Tsar reminds me of Chinese… like General Tzar's Chicken.
LOL
Dennis W says
I spell it Csar. Only because when you latinize the Russian word that sounds of (Zahr), and consider its meaning (Caesar) you come away with only letters from the Latin word. C-S-A-R. Its simple.
I don't care about the Russian syntax, the word started in Italy and was screwed up later.
Darren S says
Because the word is a translation from Russian Cyrillic, either spelling is acceptable. The word Czar, however, is derived from the latin word, Caeser, as in Julius Caeser, so technically speaking spelling it with a "C" would be closer to the original and potentially more correct.
neorhazes says
Tsar.
Why? Because in Russian language , it is written царь (if latinized, it's spelled Tsar). Actually, this term is come from word 'Caesar'.
The word Czar? It's how some of Germanic-language speaker spell 'Caesar'.
Bigredan says
I was taught to spell it Tsar, as other spellings do not represent the letter Ц correctly. In academia the US Library of Congress system of translteration is the standard tool across much of the English speaking world.
I must admit, when I see Csar, Czar or Tzar I do bristle somewhat.
Source – MA Russian Politics & History. Much time Spend in Russia & Former Soviet countries & speak Russian
John de Witt says
Yes.
But the former conforms more to the spelling in Russian, where there's a Cyrillic letter that's equivalent to the "ts" combination in the Latin alphabet.
Dave aka Spider Monk says
Tsar from the Latin Caesar and Kaisar from the Greek
Eliza D says
I use both. When I'm using it in, say, some sort of homework, I spell it as 'Czar'. I use the other in notes to remember the pronunciation. =]
Cheers!
Misanthropist says
Tsar makes more sense to me, and is the correct transliteration of the letter ц. Czar seems really bizarre, and always makes me think of Polish, where cz represents a "ch" sound.
free_spirited_emo says
I spell it Czar. I guess it just depends on her who you are and how you like to spell it.
Barbara says
I prefer "Czar" and I think this has become the more common spelling in North America … where we seem to have a proliferation of programming czars and drug war czars and beauty pageant czars …..
Jim L says
Tsar more closely represents the Russian pronunciation. So I use Tsar, though Czar looks good and has a longer history.
Nathaniel McConnor says
I spell it Czar. It appeared thus in my history textbook
njr008 says
In different history books it is spelt either way. The Russian way I believe is Tsar, and the German and English way is Czar.