Z "zee" Or Z "zed"

How do you pronounce the letter Z?

  • Z "Zee"

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  • Z "Zed"

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Wolfspirit

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I'm just wondering how many people pronounce Z as "Zee" and how many people pronounce Z as "Zed".
 
In my language (Dutch), it's pronounced "zed" so I always say "zed".

But when I'm speaking English I usually say "zee" because I'm an American media whore.
 
"zee" is a phonetic pronounciation, and IS NOT the pronounciation of the actual letter.
Thats like saying you should say 'a' instead of "ay" for the letter A. Or if you called B "buh", instead of "bee".

This is of course only true for English.
 
"tseta", or "zeta" in finnish.

About the same way people pronounce the Z in Catherine Z. Jones.

(Except it would be zita in finnish...)

Zed in english, I suppose. I don't think much about it.
 
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It is zed. As far as I can make out zee comes from some rhyme Americans teach their children to help them learn the alphabet. In order to make it rhyme they have corrupted zed to zee. So all American's grow up thinking that is right and then inflict it on our children through the Simpsons and Sesame Street.
 
WTF is zed?
I say zee.

Zed is the phonetically correct way of say 'Z'
There is no 'correct way' of saying a letter in two different languages, much like there is no 'correct way' of spelling 'colour'.
Actually, the correct way to spell colour is either colour or color, not par example, coluor. :)

My Fair Lady is a great movie.
 
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Zed is the phonetically correct way of say 'Z'
There is no 'correct way' of saying a letter in two different languages, much like there is no 'correct way' of spelling 'colour'.
Actually, the correct way to spell colour is either colour or color, not par example, coluor. :)
If we are going to get 'par example' here, another correct way of spelling 'colour' is couleur. Of course only one language exists, and that is British/Commonwealth English :rolleyes:

Brits (and many others) often accuse Americans of 'being arrogant' and 'thinking they are the only nation on earth', but from what I can tell, Brits are far worse at accepting cultural differences when it comes to language.

"Hey it's ENGLISH right not AMERICAN so why did they change the language?". They didn't.
 
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As a secondary school teacher in England I always accept American spellings when kids use them. So long as they are using standard spellings I couldn't care less if it is the English or American one. I've crossed swords with plenty of other teachers on this issue and you are quite right it is usually down to some sort of uptightness on the part of us brits. No reason for it other than we just like to be different.

Most brits spell 'Jail' the american way after all ( I guess if we were being patriotic we would spell it 'gaol' - but that just looks stupid)

Back on topic I used to always say Zed but now I sometimes slip and say Zee - Spent too long watching sesame street during school holidays..
 
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