How is the letter "Z" pronounced? - Off-Topic

#1 Posted by TepidShark (924 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

#2 Edited by TepidShark (924 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

Good way to test the range Giant Bomb's audience.

#3 Posted by Video_Game_King (29197 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

#4 Posted by Hockeymask27 (3445 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

zed like zedbra

#5 Posted by Redbullet685 (5738 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

I ain't British. Zee.

#6 Posted by Apparatus_Unearth (2740 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

I remember when Rush pronounced the name of their song YYZ "YY Zed" and then I remembered they were Canadian, it was pretty neat. Why's it pronounced Zed? Anyone know?

#7 Posted by Captain_Felafel (1309 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

Zeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

#8 Posted by ShinyTan (31 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

Z

#9 Posted by No0b0rAmA (1486 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

Zed

#10 Posted by JJOR64 (18111 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

Zeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

#11 Posted by AlexW00d (5425 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

@Redbullet685 said:

I ain't British. Zee.

I'm not an idiot. Zed.

#12 Posted by crusader8463 (13052 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

@birdflu777 said:

I remember when Rush pronounced the name of their song YYZ "YY Zed" and then I remembered they were Canadian, it was pretty neat. Why's it pronounced Zed? Anyone know?

Because that's the correct way.

#13 Posted by BoG (5169 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

Theta.

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#14 Posted by Milkman (13967 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

Who the fuck says Zed?

#15 Posted by DougQuaid (1227 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

@Milkman said:

Who the fuck says Zed?

People from the UK.

#16 Posted by Hockeymask27 (3445 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

@Milkman said:

Who the fuck says Zed?

i do

#17 Posted by Milkman (13967 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

@DougQuaid said:

@Milkman said:
Who the fuck says Zed?
People from the UK.

They would.

@Hockeymask27 said:

@Milkman said:
Who the fuck says Zed?
i do

Well, screw you, buddy.

#18 Posted by nintendoeats (5970 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

I'm Canadian so it's zed.

#19 Posted by W0lfbl1tzers (1787 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

Zee because I'm from the U.S.

#20 Posted by believer258 (7812 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

@AlexW00d said:

@Redbullet685 said:
I ain't British. Zee.
I'm not an idiot. Zed.

A different accent does not an idiot make.

Zee.

#21 Posted by UitDeToekomst (532 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

zet

#22 Posted by TheCreamFilling (1101 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

Zed's dead.

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#23 Posted by efman (203 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

Zeeeeee, because it rolls off your tongue.

#24 Posted by Lukster (19 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

I clicked "ZEE" by accident. Just keep that in mind.

#25 Posted by Sooty (6684 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

I say Zed because I am in a country that uses British English. If I was in the US I would say Zee instead. It's easy to adjust.

#26 Posted by AlexW00d (5425 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

@believer258 said:

@AlexW00d said:
@Redbullet685 said:
I ain't British. Zee.
I'm not an idiot. Zed.
A different accent does not an idiot make.
Zee.

Accent =/= saying things incorrectly. You all laugh when Will Smith says stuff wrong, but Americans do it on a daily basis. Al-oo-minum? Bah I say.

#27 Posted by CustomOtto (255 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

whoa people from different regions pronounce things differently than me?

some of them don't even speak the same language! haha what dolts.

#28 Posted by MariachiMacabre (5337 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

@believer258

@AlexW00d said:
@Redbullet685 said:
I ain't British. Zee.
I'm not an idiot. Zed.
A different accent does not an idiot make.
Zee.

I pronounce it Zee but Zed is definitely closer to Zeta. Don't know why this is a topic worth calling people idiots over but okay.

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#29 Posted by Landon (3963 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

@Milkman said:

Who the fuck says Zed?

idiots.

#30 Posted by caska (88 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

I always get freaked out by American's saying mobile without the e

#31 Posted by MikeGosot (3227 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

I pronounce Zee, so i voted Zee. I don't think there's a correct way...

#32 Posted by BisonHero (3215 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

@DougQuaid said:

@Milkman said:
Who the fuck says Zed?
People from the UK.

I wouldn't say "People from the UK", when it's more "Any English speaker aside from those in the United States".

#33 Posted by mnzy (2826 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

Isn't it hard to distinguish between C and Z when you say "Zee", though?

#34 Posted by ImmortalSaiyan (4186 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

It Dragon Ball Zee not zed.

#35 Posted by Neurotic (612 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

@AlexW00d said:

Al-oo-minum? Bah I say.

This. So much. I don't really care about other differences in American English but that one is the worst. Seriously, did you guys misread it or something?

Anyway, 'Zed' since I speak the Queen's.

#36 Posted by fox01313 (4736 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

Used to be zee for me but after a ton of Top Gear UK & other stuff on the BBC America, seems that Zed is now sticking for me as being less confusing.

#37 Posted by N7 (3531 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

It's a letter, not a word. Grow up Canadians.

#38 Posted by mandude (2519 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

I'll have to side with the Britlanders and say Zed.

#39 Posted by FluxWaveZ (17840 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

"Zee" and I'm from Canada.

#40 Posted by artgarcrunkle (964 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

@AlexW00d: Actually we changed it out of respect for the Power Rangers who have been relentlessly persecuted by Lord Zedd. Have some courtesy you xenophobic British jerk.

#41 Edited by Fenrisulfr (127 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

This is a simple literacy test. There's no D in the letter Z. Therefore, it's pronounced "zee."

*scoff* Some English that the English speak. They have the stones to name it after themselves then refuse to speak it properly.

#42 Posted by SarjuTheRapper (279 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

i kinda say it both ways. cause who really gives a fuck

#43 Posted by benspyda (1394 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

I'm not sure. I think I just switch between the two at random.

#44 Posted by BrickRoad (690 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

Zed, here. Like Zeb-ra instead of Zee-bra. However I do say Zee when it's clearly a Zee, like in the following:

'I don't like Dragon Ball Z'

#45 Posted by NoobSauceG7 (1011 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

Zed? Never heard that.

#46 Posted by ajamafalous (10576 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

@Hockeymask27 said:

zed like zedbra

I lol'd

#47 Posted by Tim_the_Corsair (3065 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

@Milkman

Who the fuck says Zed?

People that speak English, as opposed to that horrible mish-mash of randomly removed letters and z-replacing-s-for-no-reason abomination that Americans speak!

#48 Edited by GunnBjorn (2907 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

From English class I can remember it's Zee. But we Dutch people say Zet.

#49 Posted by andrew2696 (155 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

As a Canadian I'm ashamed to say I say zee. And I think zed is an everywhere thing but American's and Seasame Street say otherwise.

#50 Posted by Hadoken101 (313 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

I'm apparently the worst Canadian because I say "Zee"