Do you ever say “zed” for the letter Z?

33 comments

1. Hell no, I’m a child of God.

2. Nobody says zed – people would be confused if you said that here – it’s “zee” and taught that way.

3. Zed’s dead, baby.

4. The only people who say zed are the anglosphere immigrants, and they recieve enough crap for it that they usually learn to say zee. Or their kid teaches them what they learned in school.

5. only when I’m making fun of canadians, brits, or australians

6. Never.

7. No.

8. Zed and hache (not sure how to spell out, but if you know you know) don’t exist here. As well as every other incorrect name for letters

9. The only people I’ve ever heard say zed are people who learned English outside the US. No natives say it.

10. There is no “d” in the letter Z

11. My parents are Canadian but I got made fun of in kindergarten for saying zed so I say zee now

12. Zed is bad and wrong because reasons.

    Zee is the proper pronunciation, also for reasons.

    Bow before the weight of my mighty and well-reasoned argument.

13. My wife is Canadian, so I will occasionally do it to make fun of her.

14. Only in the rare occasion I’m referring to a ZX Spectrum computer.

15. Zebra not Zedbra

16. No, neither do we say “nought” for zero.

17. I didn’t even know that was a thing. When I hear “zed” I think of Doctor Zed from Borderlands. “Who needs a medical license when you got style”?

18. When I hear “Zed” I think of the (German?) DJ “Zedd”

19. Never (like, honestly.. I’m pretty sure I’ve never said zed for Z in my life.. not even once)

20. Zee

    But if it makes you feel better, I put the little line in my 7.

21. Zee all the way. These colors don’t run!

    🇺🇸💯🇺🇸💯🇺🇸💯🇺🇸!

22. Zee fits with many other letters, zed doesn’t. It’s like getting hit by a truck in a sea of pedestrians.

23. I lived in England and so are familiar with the spelling.

    The average American my age probably just knows of it through Lord Zedd the power rangers villain though.

    I mean, Z is one letter. Zed is clearly three. Like with all those random unpronounced U’s in English-English, America prefers brevity.

24. Not in English. 🙂

25. Zed is a good word in scrabble. I heard a version of the alphabet song where they jammed zed in and it hurt my soul a little…

26. No.

    If you tried to say “Zed” for the letter “Z” in the US, nobody would know what you’re talking about.

27. Why do you weird foreigners add “d” to just one letter? You say “bee” instead of “bed”, “dee” instead of “ded”, “gee” instead of “ged”, etc.

28. Absolutely not. Boooo @ zed. BOOOOO!

29. I’ve never met a single American, living in the US, that says “zed”

30. No. Never heard of such a thing.

31. No… Because we don’t say: bed, ced, ded, Ed, ged, ped, ted or ved…. Why would you say zed? It’s a consistency thing….

32. When someone says ‘zed’ I know they’re actually saying ‘zee.’

    And I forgive them their improper use of American English.

33. Imagine if you said your favorite 3 piece Texas based classic rock band band was “Zed Zed Top”