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Fiz vs Fmz - What's the difference?

fiz | fmz |

As a verb fiz

is (rare).

As a noun fmz is

(dated|fandom slang) fanzine.

fiz

English

Verb

  • (rare)
  • * 1844 , Eliza Peake, Honour!
    • “Why, do you know Margaret, I never hear the gallant captain talk, but I think of those small stone bottles one sees by the road-side, in the little green barrows on hot, dusty day. Fiz', '''fiz''', ' fiz they go, and only seem to be watching an opportunity to fly out in the face of that luckless wight who should be bold enough to cut their restraining wire.”

    Anagrams

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    fmz

    English

    Noun

    (fmz)
  • (dated, fandom slang) Fanzine.
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1943 , date = October , first = H. K. , last = Bulmer , authorlink = , magazine = Futurian War Digest , title = Staggerings , url = http://efanzines.com/FWD/FWD31.htm , issue = 31 , page = 7–8 , passage = The ludicrous situation may arise of all Fandom producing one zine for their own consumption - but I hardly think so. [...] And this situation will prove a spur to the recruiting of more fans, and the converting of fans into actifans. Partnerships will be dissolved after the war, when the new, bright crop of fmz that are promised spring up. But until that day ----. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1944 , first = John Bristol , last = Speer , authorlink = Jack Speer , title = Fancyclopedia , section = fmz , url = http://fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_I/f2.html
  • 18
    • , passage = fmz - (Brazier:Joquel) - Suggested abbreviation for fanzines. Pronounced [femz], but distinguished from "femmes" by accompanying the latter word with a whistle and descriptive gesture. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1950 , date = December , first = Lee , last = Hoffmann , authorlink = , magazine = Quandry , title = Chaos , url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/Quandry/Quandry5-02.html , issue = 5 , page = 2 , passage = Yes, beginning with this issue QUANDRY will bring you Fanews of the South. Serving as O-O for AUSF will in no way limit QUANDRYs horizons, tho. It will remain the life-loving li'l fmz that it has been. }}
  • * {{quote-usenet
    • , year = 1995 , monthday = September 11 , author = Lindsay Crawford , email = , title = Re: All Knowledge Is Contained in Fanzines , id = 9509101936014156@emerald.com , group = rec.arts.sf.fandom , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/_zvlBqL5IJw/09O0IID9j9EJ }}
    There have always been crudzines, but in the current environment the average fmz is done by someone with some skill, with a limited audience in mind.