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But even though that particular one goes against the trend, the fact is that tsar has been twice as common as czar for at least half a century. The Guardian Style Guide cannot simply prescribe otherwise. I suggest people who agree with your original and erroneous comment on the usage of czar search this corpus for themselves.
I showed you what I got from NGrams, which is a couple of million written instances, and which agrees with my gut feel. Here is the picture over years.
Czar is more common in total, but definitely not over the last 50 years. English, and tsar as a variant spelling. Tsar is a straightforward borrowing from the Russian, but the form of czar is strange. The Polish equivalent of Russian tsar is spelled car—Polish c is pronounced ts.
We owe our peculiar spelling of czar to an Austrian diplomatist, Siegmund, Freiherr Baron von Herberstein — Herberstein wrote in Latin, but his spelling of Russian tsar was influenced by his native German.
The entry for the term in John Ayto, Arcade Dictionary of Word Origins focuses exclusively on the derivation of the spelling tsar: Robert Hendrickson, The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins offers this remark at the end of its entry for czar; tsar; tsarina; etc.: Spelling of the word varies in both British and American dictionaries—neither form is accepted by all authorities in either country.
That the tendency of reference works to prefer tsar in UK English and czar in U. From Concise Oxford English Dictionary, revised tenth edition From Oxford American Dictionary and Thesaurus The spelling czar is overwhelmingly predominant.
Tsar, though closer to the Russian form, is archaic. And yet something very odd occurs when you run Google Books searches for tsar red line versus czar blue line. The British English chart for the years — is not surprising, given the U. But the corresponding chart for American English is astonishing: Despite being identified as the primary spelling by the Merriam-Webster, Oxford American, American Heritage, and Random House English dictionaries, tsar appears to have held its own against czar for the past century in the Google Books database of U.
A usage note under the entry for czar in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, fourth edition offers perhaps the best explanation of this seeming anomaly: The word czar can also be spelled tsar.
Czar is the most common form in American usage and the one nearly always employed in the extended senses "any tyrant" or informally "one in authority. To the extent that tsar continues to be at least as common as czar in U.Turnitin provides instructors with the tools to prevent plagiarism, engage students in the writing process, and provide personalized feedback.
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