Dear all. greetings in Jesus' name. Try this bit of humor. God bless you all. What's with the British? Don't they know that the letter Z is pronounced "zee" not "zed"? The British may be wrong about a lot of things (just look at what they eat), but they're right about this one. Z's pronunciation comes from the original Greek "zeta" via the Old French "zede" and English speakers throughout the world pronounce it that way. Americans don't because we got into a fight with the British a couple of hundred years ago. After the Revolution, we adapted the infrequently used pronunciation "zee," which seems to be imitative of bee, dee, vee, etc. But don't worry fellow Americans, we have a secret weapon for converting the rest of the world: Television. By sneaking the alphabet song in every children's TV show that we export to the rest of the world, we'll teach them to be just as wrong as we are. (Main Source: THE AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY) John R Griffiths Co-Chaplain QLD # 1 Australia _______ To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eat the hay & spit out the sticks!" RTKB&G4JC! Autoresponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rangernet.org
