Zee PM or Zed PM, how do you pronounce it?

[sarge]

Someone once told me that Americans used to say 'zed' until Sesame Street changed it so that it rhymed. I believed it for years.

wait, you mean it's not true??!!?

[Willow]

im english and we say both!
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No, we don't.

[_Owen_]

I'm Canadian, I avoid all of this controversy, I just call it a Zero Point Module.

Owen Macri

[SpookyBunny]

It' s the same in Scotland, we sometimes say both....and yes we like to be akward!

SpookyBunny

No one would suspect the bunny.

[babaganoosh]

As far as "kree" goes, sometimes I hear a rolling of the tounge when some evil goa'uld says it. Other Goa'uld don't roll their tounge...

[knocknashee]

I'm Canadian, I avoid all of this controversy, I just call it a Zero Point Module.

Owen Macri

Heh heh...

The only place I've ever heard 'Zee' used in Ireland / England (I come from Ireland, I live in England) is in a classroom when nursery / infant school teachers are teaching kids their ABCs and doing spellings. And I've noticed a ah-buh-cuh-zee habit that teachers try to put into kids, after parents have spend a couple of years from birth teaching their kids correctly, is quickly broken by parents who insist their kids spell words out ay-bee-cee-zed...or their won't sign off their homework (my stepdad flatly refused to heard my step-sister's spelling until she spoke the alphabet properly, as he and his ex-wife had taught her originally).

[_Owen_]

im english and we say both!
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No, we don't.

lmao

Owen Macri

[Qasim]

See this thread Zed PM or Zee PM

The link no longer works as the 2 threads have been merged

[_Owen_]

saying Zed compared to Zee is pretty much part of the canadian accent (and the rest of the english speaking world). I just call it a Zero Point Module, it would be hard for anyone to argue that. As for you saying that they changed the sound of the letter, actually americans changed the sound of the letter and are pretty much the only people on the planet that say Zee, other than people who choose to say Zee instead of Zed for other reasons.

Owen Macri

[blueguy w/thehand]

See this thread Zed PM or Zee PM

Just read that thread and I must say it provided 20 minutes of hilarious, but ridiculous reading. My very favorite kind

[Skydiver]

just an fyi, i merged these two zpm threads

[Dinoflo]

The thing with "zee" is that it makes you sound stupid, in the same way as pronouncing the letter "u" you as "oo" in a word, or speaking with a midlands accent.

Also driving on the right is a Catholic thing, and those of us in Britain or its former colonys, or its currently oppressed colonys drive on the left because of Henry VIII.

Also its more likley that "zee" came about the same way as "Jie" (rhymes with eye) replacing "Jay" in Glasgow.

[Willow]

Also driving on the right is a Catholic thing, and those of us in Britain or its former colonys, or its currently oppressed colonys drive on the left because of Henry VIII.
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*wonders what he had to do with driving*

[Dinoflo]

Go back to page 2, someone said,

"Completely off topic, do you know why the British and we here in Australia and many other places drive on the left? It's a hang up form medival times. knights on horse back during jousting tournaments would rid up with on the left side of the barrier. They could then do their jousting thing. often the joust broke meaning they had to use their sword to finish the job, so they again ride up on the left side, holding their sword in their right hands, if the person coming towards you is on the right of you it was easier to strike them with your sword. This then carried over to normal horse back sword fights away from teh jousting arena. The knight would hold his shield (or reigns) in his left hand and his sword in his right. Swings your sword to your right therefore was much easier than having to reach across your body. How left handed sword holding knights dealt with it I'm unsure - maybe they got on some boats and headed off to the new world."

hense me correcting them.

[Willow]

Still doesn't explain the Henry VIII connection