To: kattracks
czar
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.” But tsar is preferred by most scholars of Slavic studies as a more accurate transliteration of the Russian and is often found in scholarly writing with reference to one of the Russian emperors.
Why the heck would a Republic need one ?
4 posted on
03/22/2004 1:46:24 AM PST by
ATOMIC_PUNK
(Laziness travels so slowly that Poverty soon Overtakes him!)
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
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.” But tsar is preferred by most scholars of Slavic studies as a more accurate transliteration of the Russian and is often found in scholarly writing with reference to one of the Russian emperors. Derived from "Caesar", I figure.
11 posted on
03/22/2004 1:55:05 AM PST by
#3Fan
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
"Why the heck would a Republic need one ?"
Ya ne znaiou!
Priviet!
48 posted on
03/22/2004 3:51:24 AM PST by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
BTTT.
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