dazzlebabe wrote:Zed???
Zeppelin
(oppps Jr8 beat me to it.)
Our posts crossed! [jinx as they say]
BTW... Zeppelin is a good one! Bet when the Hindenburg crashed they didn't refer to it as a Zeeppelin

sundaymorningstaple wrote: We do pronounce Zebra, Zenith with a zee. Zed? It's not a real word.![]()
Zeenith? That is just so wrong [squint]. And of course zed is a word. If not do re mi fa so la ti aren't either, but they is
Thank goodness for Noah Webster cleaning up the fouled up British language. Remember, when in new york, lighting up a fag means putting a smile on his face!
I hadn't thought of it in quite that way before!
True, but that doesn't explain why you guys pronounce "W" like a "V" and "V" like a "W" does it. I could never understand that. If you guys can pronounce the V sound when saying a W word, and vice versa, why don't you all just pronounce them correctly?revhappy wrote:Well, most english consonants are like that. Is there a word where W has "Double U" soundsundaymorningstaple wrote:Can somebody give me a word where the "z" has a "zed" sound?
Scandinavians have precisely this flip on pronunciation as well, makes no sense. (Old family story of my mum going into a store and spending ten minutes trying to convince a sales clerk she wanted the hat in their window with a whale on itsundaymorningstaple wrote:True, but that doesn't explain why you guys pronounce "W" like a "V" and "V" like a "W" does it. I could never understand that. If you guys can pronounce the V sound when saying a W word, and vice versa, why don't you all just pronounce them correctly?revhappy wrote:Well, most english consonants are like that. Is there a word where W has "Double U" soundsundaymorningstaple wrote:Can somebody give me a word where the "z" has a "zed" sound?
Of course they do, but they all spell the samenakatago wrote:Like the UK doesn't have regional dialects and accents...ksl wrote:sundaymorningstaple wrote:Fortunately, the letter zed doesn't appear at all in the US version of the game. Only the letter zee appears.zeebras are striped horses, zedbras I don't have a clue what they are. And what the heck is a zedro?
I striped Pedro perhapsAnd what the heck is a zedro?I'm certainly a critic of the American language taking over anything British, pronunciation isn't really a problem but spelling is, it just doesn't look right and is quite alien.
It wouldn't surprise me if the Americans don't have 51 ways of spelling
Would that not be a hangover from the believed latin pronunciation of the letter V?sundaymorningstaple wrote:True, but that doesn't explain why you guys pronounce "W" like a "V" and "V" like a "W" does it. I could never understand that. If you guys can pronounce the V sound when saying a W word, and vice versa, why don't you all just pronounce them correctly?revhappy wrote:Well, most english consonants are like that. Is there a word where W has "Double U" soundsundaymorningstaple wrote:Can somebody give me a word where the "z" has a "zed" sound?
Surely the full name of the sport is 'Rugby Football' as in the game of football devised in Rugby...so in a way it makes sense.ksl wrote:I mean how on earth can a game of rugby be called football!
nakatago wrote:Only the fact that someone has to push it and that people are treating it as if the whole island is sinking into the sea.
As someone who's been told who speaks with an American accent and is used to American English, it doesn't bother me nor think anyone to be of different value if they speak with a different accent. It only bothers me if they use really region-specific words or terms (because I don't understand it) or their accent is really difficult to discern or is just plain grating to my ears. It also bothers me if they insist that the pidgin that they use is correct English but everybody else thinks it isn't.
Otherwise, pick a convention and leave someone alone if they use a different convention unless it's in formal communication.
I totally agree!Bob's yer uncle"???....
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