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Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

CLAUDE (ē-vông), a French theologian; born in Mamers, France, in 1714. He wrote " Letters to Rousseau " ( 1763), in answer to Rousseau's letters to the Archbishop of Paris; earlier in life he had been associated with Diderot and the enclyclopedists, and wrote " Liberty of Conscience " ( 1754), in which held that the state should collection of in matters of religion. Other works are: "Agreement of Philosophy and Religion" ( 1776), and " Philosophical History of Religion " ( 1779). He died in Paris in Z Z, z, the last letter of the English alphabet, a sibilant consonant, and mere vocal or sonant s, having exactly the same sound ass in please, ease, wise, etc. The words in modern English which begin with z are all derived from other languages, principally from Greek. It was not known in the oldest English. When not initial, it frequently represents an older s, as dizzy Anglo-Saxon dysig, freeze Anglo-Saxon freosan, etc. It also stands for a French cors, as in nazard, lizard, buzzard, seize. Z has intruded into citizen French citoyen; and it has changed into g in ginger Latin zingiberi. As a final it occurs in some onomatopoetic words, as in buzz, whizz, etc. In German it is very common, being a double consonant with the sound of ts; and similarly in Greek it was also double consonant, representing the a sound of ds or sd. In Great Britain it is called zed; in the United States zed, or zee.