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tz

British  

abbreviation

  1. Tanzania

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Few of the people speak any other language than the Mallorquin, a variety of the Catalan, which, from the frequency of the terminations in ch and tz, constantly suggests the old Provençal literature.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 by Various

Canon written in the album of Director Neide. tz.

From Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) by Graeme, Elliott

The genitive plural again is formed by adding a tz or c, and the same consonant characterizes the composite aorist and the conjunctive.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

"Tz, tz, tz," she clicked with her tongue, shaking her head pityingly.

From Resurrection by Maude, Louise Shanks

This, tz, and ss used only before ŭ. w as in English; but very faint, or even non-existent, before ü. y as in English; but very faint before i or ü.

From Myths and Legends of China by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)