ABSTRACT
zack. See: around the world. Zarathustra. See: Confucius. Zed is a whoreson letter (a late C17 glossarist of cant):? mid C17-late C18. Because it signifies the end. Prob. a reminiscence of Shakespeare’s ‘Thou whoreson Zed! Thou unnecessary letter!’ spoken by Kent to Oswald in King Lear at II, ii, P68 in W.J.Craig’s ed. zoo. See feeding time at the zoo.
