lesarde >> lizard (c. 700-1300 ad) - slow process over hundreds of years of evolving from a mix of languages but at this point heavily influenced by the French
unknown etymology, maybe blitzartig >> Blizzard (1870) coined overnight by a newspaper guy in the era of muck raking, yellow journalism and the birth of the tabloid.
I propose we pronounce the izz in blizzard similarly to pizza.
/ˈbli.d͡zɑɹd/
For consistency. And definitely not so that we can lead into it with a mamma mia.
