I was giving a talk to some of our guys in Phoenix about REXX. About an hour into my talk, one of the guys said, "excuse me, what is 'zed'' ". Oops "zee".
Always amazed how US English strayed from the home origins. In the North of England we always said zebbra not zeebra. Sarf and Norf are completely different. On Sat, Mar 18, 2023, 07:35 Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote: > In English the letter 'z' is a voiced 's'. > > I believe the Italians pronounce it 'ts' like the Germans. > > --- > Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 > > /* If you're going to walk on thin ice, you may as well dance. */ > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > Of Bernd Oppolzer > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2023 16:10 > > not exactly "six" ... more like "tsix", the first letter sounds like a Z > in Germany, a letter T followed by a letter S. > > It comes to my mind that most other languages don't pronounce the letter Z > this way, only we Germans do ... the other (like French and English) simply > say S. > For example zebra. How do you pronounce it? The word is the same in all > three languages, I guess ... > We say t-s-ebra. > > --- Am 17.03.2023 um 20:36 schrieb René Jansen: > > I’ve heard Germans say ‘six’; in Dutch we say ‘kicks’ like the Brits. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
