Pronunciation of Z
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I've never heard zed and frankly I feel stupid for not knowing. If America is ever at war with every other English speaking nation, our spies would be foiled by being asked the last letter of the alphabet! Unless they cover that... and I think they would.
jeps
Arcadefire
Those darn Canadians
ACTUALLY, its every english-speaking nation in the world that isnt you.....
ACTUALLY, its every english-speaking nation in the world that isnt you.....
EdCase
Defender of the Faithless
As an Englishman living in the U.S.A...... I will give you the standard conversation that ensues between this "crazy foreign bastard" and the average colonial....
Colonial "That's not how you say it. Speak english."
Me *sigh* "Where am I from ?"
Colonial "England (quite often substitute London, as lots of colonials seem to think England is MegaCity One) right ?"
Me " Indeed. .What language are we speaking?"
Colonial " Duh! English!"
Me " Therefore your telling an English speaking Englishman that he is NOT speaking correctly, because he does not descend into using your barbaric degenerate form of the language ?"
Colonial *scratches head* " Well we won WW2! USA! USA! USA!"
It is zed now and forever. Unless you speak americanese.
MjM
Deity
Bestbank Tiger
Deity
Zee.
Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
(not reading 5 pages to see if it's already been posted)
Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
(not reading 5 pages to see if it's already been posted)
Actually they say "zoo" like us. It's just that the letter by itself is "zed". Sort of like how we don't say "double-yoo-alk" when we say "walk".
Oh, and all you "British English is the only real English out there!" people: American English is often more conservative than British English from what I've heard, so nyah.
GoodEnoughForMe
n.m.s.s.
Z is pronounced like Z, duh. 
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
When I think of Zed, this is the only thing that comes to mind.
"We aren't running an intergalactic keger down here."
"We aren't running an intergalactic keger down here."
Ball Lightning
www.sporedum.net
I say zed.
Catharsis
catch u on the flip scythe
Ziggy Stardust
Absolutely Sane
Them colonists really weren't the most educated bunch were they? Forgot the U in colour, forgot how to promounce the Z, in short butchered the english language. too bad their descendants hold them in such a high regard, or we could have adjusted this unwanted wrongfull behaviour, but alas.
Butchered the English language! Ok, now you have gone too far. Way too far!
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Deity
I pronounce it "Säta"
sirdanilot
BBcode owns in sigs!
Yes it has been, but I am not going to re-read 5 pages to include a quote in this post.
You kidding? You're the ones who had a major sound shift after the 17th century! You butchered the language! Besides, if you're going to call it "zed" because it's derived more obviously from zeta, why don't you just call it "zeta" then?
English Canadian. Same.
You'll assimilate to the American dialect eventually!
Only if I get hit on the head and become ********.
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