What do you call the letter "z"?

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02 May 2018, 12:46 pm

Zee or zed?

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02 May 2018, 12:52 pm

I use both

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02 May 2018, 1:13 pm

Zed

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02 May 2018, 1:24 pm

Fun fact: The US is the only English-speaking country that pronounces z as "zee". Most other countries pronounce it as "zed".

That being said, I pronounce it the former way.

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02 May 2018, 1:27 pm

I didn't learn about Zed until about the Millennium.

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02 May 2018, 1:43 pm

I like zee.

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02 May 2018, 2:02 pm

I prefer to call it "zeta". But in Canada when we're taught the alphabet we are taught that the letter is called "zed". I think Americans are the only English-speakers who call it "zee".

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02 May 2018, 3:03 pm

I never heard Zed except for being the bad guy in the old Power Rangers. Sometimes on TV & in vid games I hear French people call Z something like ZEE like Zee Cake

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02 May 2018, 4:37 pm

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Whose motorcycle is this? It's a chopper baby. Whose chopper is this? It's Zed's. Who's Zed? Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead.

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02 May 2018, 4:41 pm

I call it "zed".

However, when I sing the "alphabet song" I call it "zee" so it rhymes

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02 May 2018, 4:46 pm

Zee.

Keeps the rhyme with the rest of the alphabet that way.

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02 May 2018, 4:54 pm

I say zed. If the Americans don't like it, too bad, so sad!! :twisted:

... Well, I do say zee for Dragon Ball Z, or World War Z, or whatever.

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02 May 2018, 8:14 pm

Usually I'd say zett.

Zed otherwise.

zee sounds exactly like cee to me

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02 May 2018, 9:19 pm

I always wondered why Zed from Men In Black was named such given the letter theme, until I found out z's original pronunciation. I say it zee, given that it's the one I grew up with.

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