Question by Josh: What’s the difference between a Czar and a Tzar?
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Answer by falsi fiable
The proper spelling is Tsar, which is an alternate spelling of Czar.
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Question by Josh: What’s the difference between a Czar and a Tzar?
Answers and Views:
Answer by falsi fiable
The proper spelling is Tsar, which is an alternate spelling of Czar.
Read all the answers in the comments.
What do you think?
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tonalc2 says
The spelling. No, really.
If you're referring to the political title, it means nothing, but is instead an umbrella catch word for lazy journalists too lazy to write out someone's entire job title.
For example, the "regulatory czar" is actually the OMB Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
Mr. Smartypants says
They are both exactly the same thing, an attempt at the conversion of a word spelled originally in Cyrillic characters. It comes from the Latin 'caesar' meaning emperor.
THE EVIL PENGUIN says
Czar is the Anglicization of the Russian word "tsar," which is a corruption of Caesar.