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

[SoulSalmon]

Also hate when people pronounce H as "Hey-ch"

wait, how do you say it then cus i have never heard it called anything else?

Aitch.
Pronouncing it Haitch is hypercorrection :/

 

[Kimarous]

Speaking as a Canadian here, I personally prefer "Zee" since it feels like a more natural way to pronounced the letter. The few times I use "Zed" is when using it as a word unto itself, usually as a name.

 

[connormcan]

Zed. You know, like near-enough the rest of the entire English-speaking world, and similar to how most Indo-European languages pronounce it too (derived of course from "zeta").

To me, "zee" sounds like it was made up by someone incapable of pronouncing "zed" or "zeta" properly. Hopefully it was because they didn't have a functional tongue, and not just because they were too lazy to use it.

Language evolves. And noone says their alphabet from a to zeta. Noone says zeta. We are in the twenty first century. Latin is dead. Duh. And why bother keeping ties with the Latin pronunciation of z? All the other letters are changed. C sounds nothing like gamma, but you prob'ly pronounce it "see."

 

[Viral_Lola]

Both. When I speak English it's zee. (I live in the US.) When I speak French I pronounce it zed. I don't know why.

 

[BaronOfStuff]

Language evolves. And noone says their alphabet from a to zeta. Noone says zeta. We are in the twenty first century. Latin is dead. Duh. And why bother keeping ties with the Latin pronunciation of z? All the other letters are changed. C sounds nothing like gamma, but you prob'ly pronounce it "see."

"Zeta" is Greek. Not Latin.

That is all.

 

[tthor]

I never knew people actually called it Zed

and i think, once again, people here are using insignificant cultural details to start more 'apples and oranges' hate wars >.>

 

[AvsJoe]

Neck and freaking neck. 83-82-5 so far for Zed, including my vote. Go Zed Go, you have the support of this Canadian in your race to glory!

 

[pearcinator]

Zee. Fuck Zed. As a great man said.

Also hate when people pronounce H as "Hey-ch"

I'm from New Zealand and no one I know around here calls it "zed" so yeah.

LOL you would hate me cos I say Zed and Hey-ch (you know, the RIGHT way!).

 

[Chalacachaca]

Zeed, but I stick with good ol' zeta.

 

[Knife-28]

I'm an Aussie, and I blame Sesame Street for the fact that I use 'Zee' most of the time. It just rolls of the tongue better the 'Zed'.

 

[Harveypot]

zed because it kind of sounds like zombie

*cough*


OP: Zed because I'm English.

 

[Trivun]

It is the ENGLISH language, so I say it the proper way. The correct way. It's 'zed'.

 

[Pikeperch]

I say zed, simply because when I speak english I try to emulate some form of queen's english. It's also more comfortable because

a) It's more similar to the swedish "zäta"
b) The supposed difference between c and "zee", if it exists, is too subtle for me to register properly.

 

[Cazza]

It's Zed in Australian. I hate it when my friends say Zee.

 

[neoontime]

Curse you dragon ball Z!

Yep, basically why I refuse to say it any other way.

 

[Kingjackl]

Generally 'zed', though I'll happily say 'zee' when it's an acronym (like ZP, f'rinstance) or intended to be pronounced that way, like Dragon Ball 'Zee'.

 

[BarbaricGoose]

Zee like Zevon.

 

[KingofallCosmos]

kind of like an "S" but with a bit of a hum behind it

Quite. I'd say you pronounce it as a bee.

 

[Nihilism_Is_Bliss]

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

This is what I entered the thread to say. Accursed poninjas.

I was going to say that! Damned ponininja'd ponininjas!