Z is pronounced zee.

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Z is pronounced zee.

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Of course it is. How else would the alphabet song work?! Zed doesn't rhyme!
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Wait, British people don't say "zee"?? Never knew that. I've heard "zed" before, but I thought it was just some weird slang or something.
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Every time a British person pronounces the letter "z", I think of this:

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Not only do we say 'zed', most countries say 'zed': http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php ... -z-as-zed/
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What I am saying is that Ada was right about Americans being dirty and wrong and mad [none]
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Well obviously all those other countries are wrong. We are America after all.
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Thanks to British colonialism, Nigerians pronounce it "zed" as well. If you're going to force English on us, at least at least make sure it's not bizzaro English. [none]
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This is the best I could come up with to rewrite the ABC song to match "zed". I like it:

...w, x, y, and zed, now I know my abc's, next time I'll sing 'til I'm dead.
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Gendo wrote:Wait, British people don't say "zee"?? Never knew that. I've heard "zed" before, but I thought it was just some weird slang or something.
No, as usual America is the exception.
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I say Zee as God intends to.

Zed sounds like Zombie. It's on State of Decay.
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Ptolemy_Banana wrote:
Gendo wrote:Wait, British people don't say "zee"?? Never knew that. I've heard "zed" before, but I thought it was just some weird slang or something.
No, as usual America is the exception.
Yet another example of American exceptionalism.
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We pronounce it "zäta," which is clearly the correct alternative.
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[youtube]https://youtube.com/watch?v=y7Yp2L6c2KM[/youtube]

^ Only time Zed has ever been an acceptable pronunciation.

I was wondering what the point of the OP was. I never would've guessed that the English not only don't know when to use the letter Z, they also don't know what the letter's even fucking called. The language really should just be called American.
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Randall Flagg wrote:We pronounce it "zäta," which is clearly the correct alternative.

As if the Swede's are ever relevant. [none]
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Uh. OP is right.
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In french it is also Zed.
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Whitey wrote:
Randall Flagg wrote:We pronounce it "zäta," which is clearly the correct alternative.

As if the Swede's are ever relevant. [none]
*Swedes. Grammar and read the article, idiot. [none]
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Randall Flagg wrote:
Whitey wrote:
Randall Flagg wrote:We pronounce it "zäta," which is clearly the correct alternative.

As if the Swede's are ever relevant. [none]
*Swedes. Grammar and read the article, idiot. [none]
Like I said, you guys aren't relevant so I didn't bother checking my spelling. [none]
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In German it's Zett (tsett), rhymes with bet.
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It's Zed here - but most people wouldn't care to correct anyone who pronounced it Zee, except when it's short for the name of something that has a common use which when you are so close to a country like NZ that has its initials in so many companies here, is reasonably frequently.
For instance - one of our major banks is the ANZ (Australia and New Zealand Bank) which is pronounced "A N Zed, but my American counterparts insist on calling it A N Zee..
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