• modern_drift@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Not listening to countries that say “zed” for the letter z.

    Bed, ced, ded, ed, ged, ped, ted, ved? No? Zee.

    • str82L @lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Would you also like us to say aee, fee, hee, jee, kee, lee, mee, nee, oee, qee, ree, see, uee, wee, xee and yee?

      • modern_drift@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        Are those letters that make the same “ee” sound when you pronounce the letter on its own? Like every one that I listed.

        • str82L @lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 days ago

          I’m suggesting that if you take your logic and apply it to all the letters equally, you’ll end up with the changes I listed. If that seems wrong, then the case for consistency isn’t as strong as you first suggested.

          • modern_drift@lemmy.world
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            8 days ago

            I understood what you were suggesting, it was just weak.

            Americans say “zee”, which is comparable to the letters I gave as examples.

            between zee and zed, zee makes more sense with it being inline with other letter’s pronunciations. What does zed come from?

            Admittedly, I do not know the history of the character’s development.