How is the letter "Z" pronounced?

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#2  Edited By TepidShark

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

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#3  Edited By Video_Game_King

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

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#4  Edited By hockeymask27

zed like zedbra

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#5  Edited By Sooperspy

I ain't British. Zee.

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#6  Edited By dichemstys

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?

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#7  Edited By Samaritan

Zeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

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#8  Edited By ShinyTan

Z

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#9  Edited By No0b0rAmA

Zed

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#10  Edited By JJOR64

Zeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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#11  Edited By AlexW00d

@Redbullet685 said:

I ain't British. Zee.

I'm not an idiot. Zed.

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#12  Edited By crusader8463

@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.

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#13  Edited By BoG

Theta.

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#14  Edited By Milkman

Who the fuck says Zed?

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#15  Edited By DougQuaid

@Milkman said:

Who the fuck says Zed?

People from the UK.

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#16  Edited By hockeymask27

@Milkman said:

Who the fuck says Zed?

i do

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#17  Edited By Milkman

@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.

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#18  Edited By nintendoeats

I'm Canadian so it's zed.

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#19  Edited By W0lfbl1tzers

Zee because I'm from the U.S.

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#20  Edited By Justin258

@AlexW00d said:

@Redbullet685 said:

I ain't British. Zee.

I'm not an idiot. Zed.

A different accent does not an idiot make.

Zee.

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#21  Edited By UitDeToekomst

zet

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#22  Edited By TheCreamFilling

Zed's dead.

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#23  Edited By efman

Zeeeeee, because it rolls off your tongue.

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#25  Edited By Sooty

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.

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#26  Edited By AlexW00d

@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.

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#27  Edited By customotto

whoa people from different regions pronounce things differently than me?

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

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#28  Edited By MariachiMacabre
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@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  Edited By landon

@Milkman said:

Who the fuck says Zed?

idiots.

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#30  Edited By caska

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

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#31  Edited By MikeGosot

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

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#32  Edited By BisonHero

@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".

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#33  Edited By mnzy

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

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#34  Edited By ImmortalSaiyan

It Dragon Ball Zee not zed.

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#35  Edited By neurotic

@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.

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#36  Edited By fox01313

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.

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#37  Edited By N7

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

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#38  Edited By mandude

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

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#39  Edited By FluxWaveZ

"Zee" and I'm from Canada.

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#40  Edited By artgarcrunkle

@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.

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#41  Edited By Fenrisulfr

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.

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#42  Edited By SarjuTheRapper

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

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#43  Edited By benspyda

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

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#44  Edited By BrickRoad

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'

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#45  Edited By NoobSauceG7

Zed? Never heard that.

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#46  Edited By ajamafalous
@Hockeymask27 said:

zed like zedbra

I lol'd
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#47  Edited By tim_the_corsair
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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!
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#48  Edited By GunnBjorn

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

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#49  Edited By andrew2696

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.

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#50  Edited By Hadoken101

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