Editing Z (section)

===Last letter of the alphabet===
In earlier times, the [[English alphabet]]s used by children terminated not with ''Z'' but with ''[[Ampersand|&]]'' or related typographic symbols.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The History of 'Ampersand' |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/the-history-of-ampersand |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=www.merriam-webster.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-09-07 |title=What Character Was Removed From The Alphabet? |url=https://www.dictionary.com/e/ampersand/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=Dictionary.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

Some Latin based alphabets have extra letters on the end of the alphabet. The last letter for the [[Icelandic orthography|Icelandic]], [[Finnish orthography|Finnish]] and [[Swedish alphabet|Swedish]] alphabets is [[Ö]], while it is [[Å]] for [[Danish orthography|Danish]] and [[Norwegian orthography|Norwegian]]. The German alphabet ends with ''Z'', as the umlauts (''Ä/ä'', ''Ö/ö'', and ''Ü/ü'') and the letter ''[[ß]]'' ({{lang|de|Eszett}} or {{lang|de|scharfes S}}) are regarded respectively as modifications of the vowels ''a/o/u'' and as a (standardized) variant spelling of ''ss'', not as independent letters, so they come after the unmodified letters in the alphabetical order.{{Cn|date=April 2025}}