Thou Worthless Zed

Figure 1:  The 26th letter of the English Alphabet, 'z'.  I scripted this in svg.


    Figure 2:  The SVG image that I scripted.

In Shakespeare's play, King Lear there is the following quote:

Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter!

In English, the phonemes produced by the letter, 'z', can also be produced by the letter, 's'.

Hence, why Shakespeare seemes to consider the letter, 'z,' "worthless" in Act 2 Scene 2 of King Lear

You may view the code of this SVG image at my Codepen account.

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