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If your question doesn't have a definitive answer, or people might disagree on the "correct" answer, it's not a good fit for r/answers. R/answers is for reference questions with definitive answers. If you see such posts or comments that violates the rules, please report them. Please note that " /r/AskReddit" style posts, troll/shit posts, or other extremely inappropriate posts will be removed.ĪLL comments must be helpful and related to the topic at hand. Especially things someone else might Google for some day. Sources: Zee vs.Everything you ever wanted to know about anything but were afraid to ask. If you like what you read, then you will definitely love this one: This Is Why British And Americans Spell Words Differently However, because kids are naturally reluctant to these kind of changes, the pronunciation of “z” as “zee” grew up with generations and this is the reason why, even today, Americans call it that way when the rest of the English speaking countries call it “zed”. In fact, elementary school teachers had to re-teach children that “z” is correctly pronounced as “zed” despite previously teaching them the song that called it “zee”. Because of the songs’ popularity the general public started massively calling “z” as “zee”. In 1835, the Alphabet song came out and, as we all know, it rhymed “z” with “me”. This was established in 1827 when Daniel Webster published the dictionary that would ultimately change the way British and Americans spell words (remember when we talked about Why British And Americans Spell Words Differently? ) and would call it “zee” instead of “zed”. Influenced by the pronunciation of the letters “bee”, “cee”, “dee”, “eee”, “gee”, “pee”, “tee” and “vee”, Americans started to pronounce the letter “z” as “zee”. But then two important things happened in the US. This was also the case with English the letter was pronounced as “zed” both in the United Kingdom and in all other English speaking countries. Of course, this comes as no surprise as all of these words are based on the Greek zeta (pronounced as zeeta, not zeta). Most languages will pronounce “z” as something close to “zed” the French will say zède, the Spanish zeta and Germans zet.
