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

[Lt. Col. Mcoy]

Avatar28 has a mucho grande, collosus, gigantic, humongous really really big POINT!!!!!!

[alfirin_kirinki]

Avatar28 has a mucho grande, collosus, gigantic, humongous really really big POINT!!!!!!

Only to Americans. The rest of the English-speaking world uses Zed, as they all speak International/British English, not American English, which is now officially another language (being at least 10% different to I/B English).

[Lt. Col. Mcoy]

Oye.

[Avatar28]

Only to Americans. The rest of the English-speaking world uses Zed, as they all speak International/British English, not American English, which is now officially another language (being at least 10% different to I/B English).

Well, going by what wikipedia said, American English is 2/3 of the native English speakers and Britsh and other English the remaining 1/3.

I'm not saying one way is right or wrong, after all, as noted, Zed IS closer to Zeta which is where it came from, yet at the same time it appears the Zee pronounciation came first.

[Atlantis1]

We Americans Revolutionized it.

[Avatar28]

We Americans Revolutionized it.

No, it was the Brits that changed it. We kept it the same.

[Eoin]

Everyone knows Z is really pronounced zzzzzzzz, not Zed or Zee
I say Zed btw, it sounds so much nicer

[Atlantis1]

LOL! Well that was one wasted joke.

*Note to self. Forget the jokes.*

[knocknashee]

Everyone knows Z is really pronounced zzzzzzzz, not Zed or Zee
I say Zed btw, it sounds so much nicer

ZZZZZZZZZZZ...sorry, was I dozing..?

A small niggle with Avatar28's point...

The American English form zee derives from an English late 17th-century dialectal form, now obsolete in England.

For a country that shares a common language, the UK has hundreds of dialect forms. Not to rubbish your claim here, but your entry states that 'zee' derived from just one, which really proves nothing. It is possible that only that dialect form used 'zee' and the remaining ones used 'zed' and did so prior to the 17th century.

[alfirin_kirinki]

For a country that shares a common language, the UK has hundreds of dialect forms. Not to rubbish your claim here, but your entry states that 'zee' derived from just one, which really proves nothing. It is possible that only that dialect form used 'zee' and the remaining ones used 'zed' and did so prior to the 17th century.

We're also talking about the modern form of the language. No one speaks Olde Worlde English any more.

That basic argument suggests that the Americans are way behind the times.

Also: Wikipedia is written by anyone who wants to write in it - it's not necessarily fact as much as hearsay.

[Stevo]

ive been going to wikipedia alot now for things im looking up, and being an aussie i say Zed-PM, sounds very strange if i ever say Zee

[srg]

ive been going to wikipedia alot now for things im looking up, and being an aussie i say Zed-PM, sounds very strange if i ever say Zee

Don't worry it's just those silly backwards americands

[Stevo]

like them driving on the wrong side of the road

[srg]

like them driving on the wrong side of the road

The french do that was well, but I know what you mean...

[Ascended Times.2]

So, who exactly is "them" who drives on the wrong side of the road eh...?
And I say Zed PM. As an Asutralian of course...