Another Of Life's Great Questions

Ok, unlike the last edition of Life's Great Questions, this one is accualy serious.

I asm fasinated by World War 2. I don't know why. Maybe it is because of the importance of aerial combat. Maybe it is because of the epic scope of the war. Or maybe it is because Hitler was the closest thing to a comic book/saterday morning cartoon supervillian the world has ever seen.

Regardles of the reason WW2 fasinates me, there is one thing I have always wondered. Why is it called the Nazi party? The real name is National Socialist German Workers Party, which doesn't have a Z in it. Is it based on the German spelling or pernuciation? Is it some German thing I don't understand? The world may never know.



Update: Ok, I'm an idiot. I should have checked Wikipedia before posting. According to the article (Found here) it is a pernunciation thing. Here is the part where they talk about it.

The term Nazi is a short form of the German word Nationalsozialist shortened to two syllables, and spelled with -zi, because the ti syllable is pronounced [tsi] in German.

Now if I can just figure out the mystery of the peanut butter cookies