I'm a Texan ( it's a whole nother country 🤠). I have started saying zed like the Brits. Zee is too easy to confuse with cee, tee, and pee.
On Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 16:00 Wayne Bickerdike <wayn...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
