Legit Reviews

I was watching Top Gear on TV the other day and they kept calling the letter Z Zed. My question is why?
To quote Cousin Avi:
Blagged? Speak English to me, Tony. I thought this country spawned the ****ing language, and so far nobody seems to speak it.

As we are the originators of the language, shouldn't the more accurate question be why do you guys call it Zee?

Dan

I don't get Zed either...one of those quirky language differences (yes between America and those other guys on the island).

English is primarily based off of germanic and latin languages - many of which pronounce it as zed. I guess it became bastardized here in America like a million other words.

Like....
grey and gray
colour and color
etc...?

Yeah, I still switch freely between grey and gray. And catch myself using colour. Firefox spell check does not like those! lol

resume and resume

One you use to get a job the other you set for driving the car.

America is the only country that says Zee. Both Australia and New Zealand say Zed.

Who's motorcycle is this?"
"It's not a motorcycle baby it's a chopper."
"Who's chopper is this?"
"Zed's."
"Who's Zed?"
"Zed's dead baby. Zed's dead."

Zed is used in Canada as well. I was born in the United States and had learned my alphabet there. I came up to Canada still at kindergarten age, so when we were singing the alphabet song, I said zee instead of zed and the class was wondering what I was going on about and I was wondering what they were going on about with that zed business. Now I switch between the two, but I rarely say that letter (or any letter, really) in the first place.

I guess saying Zed helps to avoid someone thinking Cee.

One reason why they probably have the NATO phonetic alphabet. Americans were calling in artillery on Zee and it was not landing at Zed.

All so US tire / UK tyre