Changes in the way people speak as they mature have lessened the rise of zee and may continue to do so. Zany Dr. The show featured independent and sometimes viewer-submitted content, including short films and documentaries , animation and music. Zeds Dead is an electronic music duo from Toronto that formed in Zed was a Cirque du Soleil production staged in Japan from to Search The Canadian Encyclopedia. Remember me. I forgot my password. Why sign up? Create Account.
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Zed is derived from the Greek letter zeta. Americans probably say zee because it rhymes with the alphabet song. Zed is the name of the letter Z. The pronunciation zed is more commonly used in Canadian English than zee. As zed is the British pronunciation and zee is chiefly American, zed represents one of the rare occasions in which most Canadians prefer the British to the American pronunciation.
Some Canadians have protested the use of American as a national demonym. Pokemon trading card game. What countries say zed instead of Z? I'm British Scottish and would never pronounce the letter Z as zee, under any circumstances. Zee is the name of the letter Z in the US, and it's the same pronunciation in abbreviations and when spelling a word out in letters.
As for LZ, you might find a pilot is the best person to ask. The answer might be different in your particular example if there is an internationally accepted pronunciation in the aviation industry. I'd like to think all pilots speak the same lingo! I am not a pilot, but I did find this link.
Another possibility is that pilots would say "landing zone" in full, and perhaps might not abbreviate it. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. When do we pronounce Z as "zed" and not "zi:" Ask Question. Asked 6 years, 11 months ago. Active 3 years, 10 months ago. Viewed 9k times. But in the practical usage, I never heard people say [zed] , but they always say [zi:] So when shall we say [zed]? Deal with it. We say Zed, you say Zee and who cares? What a ridiculous thing to argue about. It just is what it is. When you live here you say Zed and if you live in the United States you say Zee.
Everyone in here needs to find something more important to argue about. I happen to like the British too so stop trashing each other people!!
We were the first independent country in the Americas. We chose to call ourselves the United States of America for reasons that are probably too complex for you to follow. But there it is. Now with that name what do we call the people? United Staters? United States of Americaers? American was the only logical choice and as we were first, we had dibs on the name. Referring to the people of your country, Brits is prejudicial.
I believe they are quite content to call themselves Canadians. Citizens of the U. Oh more whiny antiamericanism. And rite is actually a word…look it up.
B is pronounced B, not bed. C is pronounced C, not ced. Fucking tea-drinking Queen worshippers. Sometimes t makes sense, but a majority of the time it just does not. I mean do you really pronounce the word color as, col-OUR or color; another one being neighborhood or neighb-OUR-hood. Also its funny you complain about american on an american site, dont see many british owned sites do we now….
Are you THAT ignorant? Get your own language! And if not for the invention of the telephone by Mr. Bell a Canadian , the Internet would not have a medium to exist on.
Alexander Graham Bell March 3, — August 2, [4] was a Scottish-born[N 3] scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. When you move to a new country and become a citizen of that country you will, from that point forward, be considered to be from that country regardless of your age and the fact that your roots and ancestors may be from somewhere else.
You may may label yourself as an Irish American or a Scottish Canadian if you so choose but the country you are a citizen of will also become a part of your identity. As for Bell, he lived and worked a great deal of his life in Canada.
He died and is buried at his estate in the Cape Breton area of Canada where he spent most of his time during his later years but he was ever officially Canadian. He was born in Scotland and moved to Canada shortly after Canada became a country. At the time he remained a British citizen as that would have been all that was required.
He worked took him to the US and he divided his time between the two countries; however, he chose to become a US citizen and reportedly considered himself to be an american. Zed is said to derive from Greek Zeta. You pronoun ce it properly, so do we…get over it. No language is monolithic, especially such a large one. English is full of dialects. Who cares whos RIGHT or who won the war lol you people are a bunch of judgemental selfish creatures thats why the war began in the first place.
What makes you so special where you can act as victims? Britain is an island…they complain about US calling ourselves America. However, they ignore their subjects in Northern Ireland. The English language by definition originates from England, I am sure that we can all agree on that? However, believe it or not, replacing the S with Z is not an American thing at all. But this actually goes further, for some unknown reason Americans do not have a ground floor e. Although I am Irish, to me English is the language of England and we should respect that and follow along those lines.
Fortunately or unfortunately depending on your view, England cannot claim any sort of guardianship or stewardship of the English language [any more]. More people speak English as a second language than speak it as a first.
On the other hand, my criticism at Americans is the general ignorance toward the language they have acquired. Umm what? Usually elevators are either G ground 1, 2, 3, etc.
Sometimes there is no G, just 1, 2, 3. Also IDK if this is common or just an American thing, but many elevators and buildings will not have a 13th floor. I am unable to figure out how to insert the graphic in this reply, hence, I have just posted the URL. In light of such development, it may be very likely that white English speakers throughout the world will encounter the Indian accents — there are many — and, maybe, even adopt one, for wider market reach or other reasons, whether they like it or not.
Well I certainly haven t seen the same arguments as you as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irelanders, just shout their superiority while claiming we Americans are obnoxious. They claim they are right and we are wrong…not us…read the question…no one ever expressed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irelanders were wrong…they jumped to that conclusion out of their own inferiority.
What happened? Same phenomenon is happening now. Second generation kids if they speak Spanish at all, do so only with the older generation. I love seeing this kind of thing on websites like this… Humans, arguing for years over petty and insignificant ordeals. You people fail to realize that we all live on this Earth. Generalization and stereotyping are a hindrance and should be abolished from modern society. We all have out own idiosyncrasies. You Europeans always bash Americans for being inferior and having a superiority complex about themselves, always thinking they are better than everyone else but in doing so unwittingly become hypocrites because you yourselves are speaking through your own superiority complex.
You are trying to prove how much better you are than they by doing the same thing they are which in the end makes you no better.
Decades worth of cultures from around the world combining on a central location to create what you know and love today.
Most people defend The country through extreme patriotism but that same patriotism has blinded you with delusions of grandeur. This comments sections proves that both sides have ignorance. To hate and berate people solely basen on where they live and how they talk or type is a prime example. We Humans are all guilty of it and in the end it all points back to us being the same. We may live on in separate continents, speak different languages and live completely different lives but wise or not we are all homo sapiens sapiens.
Embrace that fact and try getting along for once. I do not put myself above anyone else. Very little is the same in the US as it is in Britain or most of the world for that matter. Yeah, a lot of bad shit happened along the way slavery, racism, etc. What continent are you from? Yeah, except that, really, nobody in America says that. We just say Zee and are fine with the English saying it another way.
The Brits, however, spend an enormous amount of time telling Americans why we they are wrong about this word or that word, among other things. Which I always found kind of funny because of our proximity to the States.
Funny how language evolves. Canadians still spell a lot of words like our British counterparts: centre, theatre, colour, favourite, yet we feel a closer connection with the States… for the most part! Americans Improved upon it, as we do everything. A letter in the alphabet should not be said as a word which makes it sound totally different from the letter itself. The buzz, called in phonetics as a voiced consonant, is a distinct sound formation used throughout the alphabet.
There are many languages, as well as some dialects of English, that have more difficulty distinguishing the two, due to various reasons, such as a lack of important phonetic difference.
Then you need to get your hearing checked. And how often do you hear people say zee? Do you confuse cany and zany? That Monty Python movie was very cany! We should consider ourselves lucky to be able to communicate easily with such a large portion of the world and not squabble about petty differences. Neither are wrong in the local area so I try to adapt to their standard.
If I were to write a generic e-mail to all groups, personally I would use British English, as I view it as a more accurate way of spelling.
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