Z = Zed

Hamsterchops

Z= Zed, or at least it has been for all of my life, that is until recently, and now I'm picking up pockets of Zee on the radio and on Irish TV :cool:

Keep zed I say, and let the Americans keep their pronunciation on their side of the pond....

How do you pronounce the letter z.
(See poll attached).

Doublebusy

Qrstuvwxy zed sugar on my bread

SEPT 23 1989

You seem to know your ABC

EmmetSpiceland

Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.

Doublebusy

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

You seem to know your ABC

Qrstuvwxy zee next time won't you play with me

Conall Cernach

I think that any of us that did King Lear for the Leaving will remember:
"Thou whoreson Zed! Thou unnecessary letter!" - King Lear, Act 2, Scene 2.

odyssey06

You will get a kick from watching Stargate Atlantis... and the different pronunciation of acronym ZPM from the Americans and Canadians.

Doublebusy

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.

Thats what I thought when clicking into the thread

Quantum Erasure

Ezed

alchemist33

Where's the A-zed option?

Hamsterchops

A-zed ?

Strumms

I dont do Zee, Zed is said.

micar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Yp2L6c2KM

Discussion over ;-)

Leg End Reject

Zed.

Feck off with your Americanisms.

Mad_maxx

prefer the american pronunciation myself

too much sesame street growing up

EmmetSpiceland

micar wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Yp2L6c2KM

Discussion over ;-)

One eyed Jack

Just rattled off the alphabet in my head, z rhymes with v, just sounds right, though I’ve heard of zed too, I never thought much about it.

‘erbs though, or an ‘otel... onvelope just about gets a pass, the other two are really grating.


EDIT: I’ve just realised - d, g, p, v...

And W is the only letter in the alphabet that’s two syllables.

TheValeyard

This might be an over reaction, but how about we round up all those who say Zee and have them sent to Siberia?

Victor

One eyed Jack wrote: »

And W is the only letter in the alphabet that’s two syllables.

D'oh-ble-eew.

Hay-ch

PARlance

When saying the ABC it's Zee... Next time won't you play with me.

For everything else, Zed.

So a Zedbra is a thing now? Idiots.

Papa_Bear

PARlance wrote: »

When saying the ABC it's Zee... Next time won't you play with me.

We would also have accepted "tell me what you think of me"




And now




zee is for girls


zed is for boys


Now lets have no more debate about the matter:)

Mr. CooL ICE

Big Z little z, what begins with Z? A Zizzer Zazzer Zuzz, as you can plainly see

Quantum Erasure

Ello meno pee

Tavrin Callas

One eyed Jack wrote: »

And W is the only letter in the alphabet that’s two syllables.

How do you pronounce W with just two syllables?

Tavrin Callas

Oh, and it's obviously zed.



Irish have a weird way to pronounce R too - "Or" where most other places it's "Are". Not so much on broadcast platforms, but in general usage.

MarkR

Tavrin Callas wrote: »

Oh, and it's obviously zed.



Irish have a weird way to pronounce R too - "Or" where most other places it's "Are". Not so much on broadcast platforms, but in general usage.

I've heard weird pronunciations of Q as Quh. Sounds like huh

biko

That's the power of America in Ireland.
Even when they pronounce two letters in the alphabet the same Irish people are lapping it up and change from a good way to a worse way to do things.

Wibbs

I'm not a Yank so zed.

EmmetSpiceland

biko wrote: »

That's the power of America in Ireland.
Even when they pronounce two letters in the alphabet the same Irish people are lapping it up and change from a good way to a worse way to do things.

And, as a Swedish person, how do you pronounce it?

Gregor Samsa

If I'm saying the alphabet, it's Zee. If I'm spelling a word with it, it's Zed. My mother pronounced it Eh-zed.

Gregor Samsa

Tavrin Callas wrote: »

How do you pronounce W with just two syllables?

Dub-you.

dan1895

I hate every ape I see, from chimpan-a to chimpanzee

Coopaloop

When my 5 year old sings the alphabet he finishes it....w x y zed or zee. Hes a smart as*.

begbysback

They are interchangeable, for example if you are catching a few zeds they you will be seeing zzzzzzeeees

Gregor Samsa

I pronounce the letter A as Ay. But I pronounce the word A as Ah.

Ay Bee Cee Dee

I ate Ah pear.

Hector Mildew

[Deleted User] wrote: »

So a Zedbra is a thing now? Idiots.

You must really struggle with W words!

Zaph

[Deleted User] wrote: »

So a Zedbra is a thing now? Idiots.

The d is silent

screamer

zed or zee it’s all the same to me.

Badly Drunk Boy

One eyed Jack wrote: »

And W is the only letter in the alphabet that’s two syllables.

It's "double 'U'".

Tavrin Callas wrote: »

How do you pronounce W with just two syllables?

Dubya. As in 'Bush'.

begbysback

A zebra is black with white stripes, a zeebra is white with black stripes

Hamsterchops

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biko wrote: »

That's the power of America in Ireland. Even when they pronounce two letters in the alphabet the same Irish people are lapping it up and change from a good way to a worse way to do things.

Agreed, I guess you mean cee & zee which sound almost identical. I like our zed just as it is, plus it can't be confused with the letter c.

I see Zee is doing well in the poll, better than I expected :cool:

Wannabe Americans?

muckwarrior

Hector Mildew wrote: »

You must really struggle with W words!

Don't mind him. He's just a doubleyouanker.

Tavrin Callas

The only time I'd use zee would be in things like World War Z or the Lost City of Z.

fryup

its not Zed Zed Top

its Zee Zee Top

jimgoose

Mad_maxx wrote: »

prefer the american pronunciation myself

too much sesame street growing up

^^^
Exactly. I've been pronouncing it "zee" all my life, since learning the alphabet from Sesame Street when I was about three. :pac:

jimgoose

fryup wrote: »

its not Zed Zed Top

its Zee Zee Top...

Not in Wesht Kerry - they say Ezed Ezed Top.

blackbox

It was ezed when I was a kid in the midlands.

X, Y, Ezed.

Should have been an option in the poll.

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Tavrin Callas

Ive never heard of ezed in my life.

Esel

Dubs go to the azoo.

murpho999

Deleted User wrote: »

So a Zedbra is a thing now? Idiots.

Following your logic than you would read what you wrote above as follows:

Ess-oh ah Zed-e-dee-bee-or-ah eye-ess ah Tee-haich-eye-en-gee en-oh-double -you?
Eye-dee-eye-oh-tee-ess.

Above of course is a poor attempt at phonetics but that's roughly how would would speak if every letter was pronounced in a word as how it's pronounced in the alphabet.

Clearly it doesn't work that way.

So it's Zed,