Editing Notes on Muscovite Affairs (section)

==Tsar vs Czar==

One final thing for which Herberstein and his book was noted, though not widely understood, was his contribution to a spelling confusion which did not emerge until the end of the 19th century and still causes disagreement: he recorded the spelling of "[[tsar]]" (Russian ''царь'', [[International Phonetic Alphabet|pronounced]] [t͡sɑrʲ]) as ''czar''. This may cause confusion nowadays because the [[Digraph (orthography)|digraph]] {{angbr|cz}} is today only used in the [[Polish language]] and is there pronounced as [t͡ʃ]. However, [[Early Modern German|early modern German]] (as Herberstain spoke and wrote it) and furthermore also pre-20th century [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] or the '[[Mazurzenie|mazurizing]]' dialects of Polish used {{angbr|cz}} for [t͡s]. Contrary to what the {{angbr|cz}} might suggest, all [[Slavonic languages]] pronounce the title "tsar" with [t͡s], which is always written with a simple {{angbr|c}}, in Latin-writing Slavic languages as well as in the transliterations of Cyrillic-writing ones. English and French moved from the {{angbr|cz}} spelling to the {{angbr|ts}} spelling in the 19th century.