Or the rap artist “Jay-Zed”?
We always say “Zee Zee Top” - I think there’s a sort of unspoken acceptance that they’ve earnt it. But you sometimes hear people say “Jay-Zed”, normally as a bit of gentle mockery.
Jay-Zed as a joke is definitely something I’ve done.
Along with Thirty Pence
50 Cent?
Feat. The Dogg Stone
Along with Thirty Pence
Ugh, double post
This is the most British thing I’ve ever heard.
Ah, so I’m guessing it wasn’t “Dragon Ball Zed” either, then.
I guess that makes sense, the Rush song doesn’t become YYZee in the US (mostly).
It is in french. In the intro song it sounds like they sing “dragon boule zedde”.
Boule (kind of ) being pronounced as “bool” ( from boolean )
Grew up in South Africa (British English) and we always said “Dragonball Zee”
Brit here, I’ve heard both but DBZee is the most common.
Imagine if the whole alphabet was like zed instead of like zee:
a bed ced ded ed f ged h i j k l m n o ped q r s ted u ved w x y zed
ged
Is this pronounced ‘ged’ or ‘ged’?
Yes
I… unironically don’t hate this!
I had ties to both Zee and Zed-speakers growing up, but in my experience, Zee and Zed can be used somewhat interchangeably, even across the pond. This might be in order to account for names (like Z Z Top and Jay Z), puns (such as La-Z for lazy) or even ease of pronounciation - when playing CSGO, I’ve heard Americans refer to the CZ-75 as Cee-Zed-Seventy-Five, because they found it weird to switch between the cee, zee and seven sounds, but I’m not sure how common this is.
CeeZee SeventyFive is easy to say, it even rhymes at the starting bit
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This is correct. ;)
Here in Australia where we also pronounced z as zed not zee, I’ve never heard anyone say zed zed top and it’s always zee zee top. However, while I personally would too rarely find myself on a conversation about Jay-Z to be able to gather enough data to form a conclusion, I vaguely feel like I’ve people both say Jay-Zed and also Jay-Zee though I’m not quite sure.
I think the thing is, without being able to explain why, Zed Zed top just seems too obviously not the intended pronunciation that it’s just a no brainer to interpret it as Zee knowing that they’re American and American culture being so ubiquitous that everybody knows you guys say Zee. Jay Z theoretically should fall under the same rule but I think it’s easy enough to say Jay Zed without it feeling weird and wrong that same people might opt for their familiar Z pronunciation over the source Z pronunciation, though I’d say it’s not typical.
Asking the real questions.
… and I hope to the gods it’s Jay-Zed
Zed Zed Top of the mornin’ to ya guvnah! Lovely day innit?
If it’s a company name or a band or something then I’ll say zee. But acronyms like ZFS are always zed.
i always do, but it’s mostly to be facetious - i wouldn’t be hugely surprised if people didn’t know what i was talking about
