Poll: How do you pronounce the letter "z"?

[Xanadu84]

It's inconsequential and I know it. However, if someone insists in zed being proper, I do have this to say: You pronounce the h in Herb. I don't, but I admit that fair is fair, your way makes more sense. "erb" sounds proper to me but I can admit that that is because of my cultural immersion. But while you need a vowel sound to make the letter z into a proper sounding word, the letter D has absolutely no place in there. It is irrational. Zed sounds silly, ruins the rhyming scheme, and does not clarify anything. It is dead weight. It doesn't matter enough to make a case for, but if you must make a case for Zed, I must point out that its a bad case to make.

 

[Treaos Serrare]

i have a question, and it might be answered already here in this topic, but why the hell do europeans pronounce Z(ZEE) as Zed?

 

[rokkolpo]

In my mother's tongue: Zed (Dutch)
''Zee'' in english because whenever I sing the alphabet it says so!

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

I chose other.

I pronounce it "Zarnifablargabergensire"

Take that established order!

EDIT: Holy mother of balls... This is by FAR the biggest flame war I have seen on the Escapist. And it's all over the final letter in the alphabet. Wow. Just..... Wow.

 

[PG]

Hmm, I always pronounced it 'jerbiltinzen'

 

[icyneesan]

Zee, because Zed reminds me of the doctor guy from borderlands. I didnt not like him D:

 

[Treaos Serrare]

Zee, because Zed reminds me of the doctor guy from borderlands. I didnt not like him D:

pretty much every character support npc or not is a massive dickpiston in that game

 

[Nixitur]

I pronounce it "tsed" because I'm German.

But when I speak English, I pronounce it "zed" because that's the way I learnt it. We learn English in school, not some weird dialect version of it.

 

[Amphoteric]

It's Zed because it's zed.

 

[Leemaster777]

I'm an Australian who pronounces it 'Zee'.

'Zed' sounds silly, and doesn't rhyme in the alphabet song. For these reasons, I dislike it.

Thank God someone else said it.

I'm an American, and I pronounce it "zee" for the reasons above.

 

[MichealRein]

It's pronounced "zee," the only time I've heard it pronounced "zed" is in the French alphabet. (I'm pretty sure it's the French one, at least)

 

[Popadoo]

I pronounce it "zed" - the way the entire english-speaking world other than America pronounce it.

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It's like the way people write the date or missing out 'U' in words. Just say -Zed- people.

 

[Varitel]

I am from the US, so I pronounce it "zee". They are both right, however. One is NOT better than the other. It all has to do with where you were brought up.

 

[scorptatious]

I thought I had to pronounce the letter "z" without actually using the letter "z". Thank goodness. My brain would have fried.

OT: I personally pronounce it "zee" here in the USA. I've never heard anyone prononce it any other way up until now.

 

[Julius Ketonen]

I'm from Finland so "zeta"

 

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

Despite living my whole life in Canada, I pronounce it "zee" because it rolls off of the tongue far better than "zed". The "d" sound at the end of "zed" makes it sound extremely awkward.

 

[DementedSheep]

Zed, unless it?s part of a name or title where the person who thought it up probably intended it to be pronounce zee. For example ?dragon ball zed? sounds kind of stupid. I live in New Zealand

 

[Snoozer]

Zet [tsɛt] (valid option?)
In english i'd say Zee.

 

[DustyDrB]

Whoa...Zed? I've never even heard of that. And it's the majority...

It's Zee to me.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

Despite being a Canadian....I pronounce it "Zee".

Go figure, eh?