How do you spell "tsar/czar?" (user search)
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  How do you spell "tsar/czar?" (search mode)
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Lunar
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« on: June 26, 2010, 06:04:10 PM »
Quote from: Beet on June 26, 2010, 05:51:08 PM
Czar = dynamic mid-level bureaucrat
Tsar = Napoleon nemesis

That's what I was going to say.  I use Tsar to refer to historical rulers of Russia, and "czar" for a contemporary bureaucrat
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« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2010, 09:20:58 PM »
Quote from: Jas on June 28, 2010, 10:20:14 AM
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I would (maybe wrongly?) think of 'czar' as an Americanism.

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Lunar
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« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2010, 09:22:02 PM »
I guess it's used in the UK too?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czar_(political_term)#United_Kingdom
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