Zed or Zee?

[boki]

Is "J" pronounced "j-aye" anywhere else?

Janet Street-Porter's wonky gob.  That's put you off, in't it?

[Al Tha Funkee Homosapien]

My former boss and several colleagues refer to the DMZs at work as "Dee Em Zees" which winds me up far more than it should. I mean, I'm a perfectly reasonable bloke and all, but that really grates my gonads. It's Zed, and that's all there is to it.

Do you work on or near the 38th parallel?

[El Unicornio, mang]

D-M-Zed sounds weird. I would opt for D-M-Z there

[SetToStun]

Do you work on or near the 38th parallel?

Nope - I'm strictly on the 51st. Well 51-and-a-half, to be fairly precise. Which is why the "zee" bit annoys me so much.

[SetToStun]

D-M-Zed sounds weird. I would opt for D-M-Z there

But you've been corrupted by living Over There, hence you're simply wrong. Sorry and all that, but it's a fact.

[Pylon Man]

I just say "hello". I'd rather sound like an uptight middle-class person than the Fonz.

[Huzzie]

Ha ha.

"... With a glorious swish of his sword and his lahhnce; and a glorious clank of his tin-plated... uh, pahhnce."

<Assembled kids look confused>

You could just pronounce it as it is supposed to be pronounced, you big posh southern pooftahs!

[Huzzie]

I say "hey" too. I stopped saying "alright?" a long time ago because I just got blank stares. I sometimes say hello but it makes me sound like some kind of old British gent, and "hi" just sounds like a plummy English girl. I think.

What about "Howay"?

You have an excuse for "hey" anyway but Chocks doesn't and so deserves a kicking!

[Huzzie]

But you've been corrupted by living Over There, hence you're simply wrong. Sorry and all that, but it's a fact.

Well no, it's a name isn't it? You can't go changing peoples names just because "well, that's NOT how it's pronounced where I come from sir!"


Racist!

[SetToStun]

Well no, it's a name isn't it? You can't go changing peoples names just because "well, that's NOT how it's pronounced where I come from sir!"


Racist!

I can only hope you always use the correct pronunciations for Paree, Bretagne, Ivlivs, Ivlian, etc. etc.

And go for your long weekends in Praha, of course.

Anglophonist!

[Morrisfan82]

You could just pronounce it as it is supposed to be pronounced, you big posh southern pooftahs!

Hey, I do pronounce 'pants' with a hard 'a'! You, er, big Northern... fingy.

In fact it's wall-to-wall hard-A action round here, oh yes.

[VegaLA]

you big posh southern pooftahs!

Good spelling on the pooftah. Not that i'm keeping score.

[Uncle TechTip]

'Hello' was an American construct anyway, so it doesn't really matter.

[Al Tha Funkee Homosapien]

Hey, I do pronounce 'pants' with a hard 'a'! You, er, big Northern... fingy.

In fact it's wall-to-wall hard-A action round here, oh yes.

I think was referring to the pronunciation of 'lance'. You soft southern bi-sexual rape monster.

[SOTS]

It's pronounced zed.

The more pressing issue is the that of the letter H. It's pronounced aitch, not haich.

I've had a couple of teachers in the past constantly pronounce it "itch"

[Baxter]

It's the "haitch" thing that really makes me want to rip out vocal cords.

[Bingo Fury]

Even though I hate it, I find I'm becoming more American in the way I speak. I quite often find myself pronouncing 'cigarettes' with the emphasis on CIGarettes rather than the way we usually say it with the emphasis on cigarETTEs.

One day a couple of years ago, I realised I was doing that too, and must have been saying it like that for a while without realising. One of those "When the fuck did that happen?" moments. "Zed" is still sacrosanct, though.

[trotsky assortment]

Peter Greenaway wouldn't lie to us all, would he?


That said, he does seem to have problems spelling zoo properly...

Cor, I'd forgotten about that film.  A proper piece of self-indulgent toss, if I recall.

[Ambient Sheep]

Cor, I'd forgotten about that film.  A proper piece of self-indulgent toss, if I recall.

Great soundtrack though.  And the opening minute or so is a piece of cinematic brilliance.  Shame about the rest of it (although to be fair, I haven't seen it since first transmission).