Anglo Saxon(One of the 3 languages English comes from) pronounced

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Anglo Saxon(One of the 3 languages English comes from) pronounced

Z like an S, and it was said as Sigel, See, Zee, etc. Old Norse pronounced their S only as an S, they only used Z in writing. With Anglo Frissian we can only assume that the pronunciation was the same as Anglo Saxon. Now before you ignorantly say hurr durr these aren't English, this is literally the foundation of English. Now. Onto it's development after it became isolated in England. During English's stay in England, they dropped runes and repurposed this barely(for them) known alphabet, the Roman Alphabet. They just took their rune pronunciation and put it on the fitting letters. S and Z were applied exactly as pronounced. S was said as "Es", "Ez" was said as Z. After the Norman Conquest, not much changed there, but the S started to be used for words that needed a Z in pronunciation. Still nothing about Z being Zed... Weird, English is already post Norman and there's no sightings of Zed?

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02.06.2018