manny1973 Posted January 7, 2009 Share #1 Posted January 7, 2009 I see the following used alot. ZED What does ZED stand for?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doradox Posted January 7, 2009 Share #2 Posted January 7, 2009 I see the following used alot. ZED What does ZED stand for??In some other parts of the world the letter Z is pronounced Zed.Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezer Posted January 7, 2009 Share #3 Posted January 7, 2009 (edited) In some other parts of the world the letter Z is pronounced Zed.SteveI would venture that in most of the world Zed is the predominant pronounciation, although here in Canada Zee is gaining popularity. As far as I know it is only the USA that uses Zee in place of Zed. Edited January 7, 2009 by geezer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sblake01 Posted January 7, 2009 Share #4 Posted January 7, 2009 I grew up in the US listening to my grandfather and grandmother and even ocaisionally my dad using the term 'zed' while they were teaching us 'z' in school. They're from Guyana (formelrly known as British Guiana) South America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Palmer Posted January 7, 2009 Share #5 Posted January 7, 2009 Had an algebra teacher in Idaho that did the ZED thing. I'm sure she picked up as a child on Mars. Man was she weird!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doradox Posted January 7, 2009 Share #6 Posted January 7, 2009 I would venture that in most of the world Zed is the predominant pronounciation, although here in Canada Zee is gaining popularity. As far as I know it is only the USA that uses Zee in place of Zed.Yes, that's quite likely. The thing I find funny is people write out Zed, which is how they would pronounce the letter Z but I've never seen it done for Zee. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezer Posted January 7, 2009 Share #7 Posted January 7, 2009 Had an algebra teacher in Idaho that did the ZED thing. I'm sure she picked up as a child on Mars. Man was she weird!!HAHA! How many fingers and toes did she have? Hope that didn't cause you trouble doin' yer cipherin...ROFLROFLROFLROFL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manny1973 Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share #8 Posted January 7, 2009 Thanks to all. I should have known that being German. Now I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doradox Posted January 8, 2009 Share #9 Posted January 8, 2009 Some other interesting info on "Z".>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaIn many dialects of English, the letter's name is zed (pronounced /zɛd/), reflecting its derivation from the Greek zeta (see below). In American English dialects, its name is zee /ziː/, deriving from a late 17th-century English dialectal form. Another English dialectal form is izzard /ˈɪzɚd/, which dates from the mid-18th century and probably derives from the French et zède "and z".[1] This is the predominant form in anglophone South Asia.[citation needed]Other Indo-European languages pronounce the letter's name in a similar fashion, such as zet in Dutch, German, Romanian and Czech, zède in French, zäta in Swedish, zeta in Italian and Spanish, and zê in Portuguese.In Chinese (Mandarin) pinyin the name of the letter Z is pronounced [tsɛ].In the Philippines, it is quite common to hear people pronounce the name of the letter Z as "zay" rhyming with "say".<Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mally002 Posted January 8, 2009 Share #10 Posted January 8, 2009 So in the US when you say "ZED" or in the case of "Zedd Findings" are you pronouncing it as like rhyming with "feed" , or rhyming with "Ed".....does that make sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26th-Z Posted January 8, 2009 Share #11 Posted January 8, 2009 Rhyming with Ed, but also be aware that the sound of Z is different in other parts of the world as well. Z can be pronounced as we would say "ts" like in cats. So ZED would be pronounced Tset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Palmer Posted January 8, 2009 Share #12 Posted January 8, 2009 Waaaaay more than I ever wanted to know. Know 'ut I mean Vern? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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