Yesterdays blog caused quite a stir. It seems that rizz is a word that people really enjoy using instead of the word allure.

#743 theoldmortuary ponders.

I know a blog has gone down well when at some point in the day someone quotes it back to me. Also my stats go up, but that is less pleasurable than meeting someone who wants to talk about the blog.

It was news to me that I have been spelling ‘pizzazz’ wrong all my life.

Maybe I can blame my rural North East Essex youth where people still spoke with a soft accent rather than the better known Estuary English which is now synonymous with Essex.

There was no i in our pizzazz when I was growing up and for all of my life until yesterday. There was a rabbit hole of discovery on line that briefly swallowed me up. You can click on the link or not

https://uselessetymology.com/2019/11/15/where-does-the-word-pizzazz-come-from-etymology-history/

The Etymology of ‘ Pizzazz’- Useless Etmology.

I think I have always enjoyed words that include zeds.

Reliably first on the front row of a Querty keyboard.

Deliciously somnolent when written or typed repetitively. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

The funny thing is that I must always have ignored spell check and pressed on with my own abbreviated version as the Whatsapp message at the top of the blog shows.

I was at school with a boy who had a zed in all of his names, Juliusz Bezjak Szpytma, I was very envious.

Imagine my excitement when I discovered that the devices used to light gas hobs had piezoelectric cells!

Enough, time to draw this blog to an end before I pass its Zenith.