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

[harvz]

zed, its how its pronounced in australia and is a bit kinder to those who have hearing/speech problems

 

[Robert Ewing]

Lower case 'z' I pronounce 'zee.'

But upper case 'Z' I pronounce 'Zed.'

 

[shadowshian]

when speaking in english its zed when in finnish its zeta

 

[Jakub324]

Zed, 'cause I'm British and we like things to be done our way.

 

[John the Gamer]

Zee when speaking English and Zet when speaking Dutch.

 

[F'Angus]

Zed normally but when it's Dragonball I use Zee

 

[Gimelbub]

Zee. Just because a bunch of Brits are obsessive about pronouncing it "the right way" doesn't change the fact that 'zed' just sounds stupid.

 

[lordlillen]

zed because zee sounds to much like c or exactly the same.

 

[squeekenator]

Australians pronounce it 'zee'.
I think it may be partially because it rhymes with E, G, T etc.

No we don't, other than the (admittedly vocal) minority who spent their whole childhood watching American television.

 

[alithanar8]

Zee because the Power Rangers already defeated Zed...

 

[Zeriu]

I say zee because I'm used to it but I'd much rather say zed cause it sounds cooler.In my native language I say zet weirdly enough.

 

[SoranMBane]

Zee. "Zed" sounds silly to me, like you're insisting on using some military phonetic alphabet in regular speech, and it just doesn't sit well with all the other letters whose names end in "ee." Plus I live in America, so that's just the way I've always heard it pronounced.

 

[Hungry Donner]

"Zed" when discussing Fancy Smith, "Zee" for everything else.

Zee/Zed doesn't bother me, but the British "aluminium" sounds too hilarious to take seriously, I'm afraid.

 

[lRookiel]

Zed. W, X, Y and Zed

 

[drisky]

Like with any "Americans do it wrong" thing I like to look up why.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1632/why-do-the-british-pronounced-the-letter-z-zed

Apparently it was just a big fuck you to British people. So there you go British people, this time we are doing it just to piss you off. We aren't your colonies any more, nya nya.

 

[Fenris97]

Zet

Don't ask about it...

 

[poleboy]

Y'know I actually used to say zee, even though it's zed (or close enough) in my native language. And I was always annoyed how much it sounds like C. Damn you, viral American culture! I'm gonna start saying zed now.

 

[instantbenz]

first time i heard 'zed' was when my girlfriend said it.

Me: how do you spell that?
Her: zed-why-gee...
Me: hold on, what?
Her: ZED-----WHY-----GEE
Me: wtf is zed?
Her: it's a zee you ass

we live together now

 

[Spud of Doom]

Zed, with the exception of places where the it is used in the name of something.

e.g. Dragonball Z = Dragonball "zee"