Why is it "Zed-Ex Spectrum"?

[SolidSonicTH]

That says "ZX". You can't enforce a pronunciation on a letter. As an American English speaker I see that character and say it as "zee".

 

[x65943]

The letter Z
The Greeks call it
Zeta

British in their usual fashion hacked off the final Greek vowel to give us
Zet or Zed

Americans took this a step further, and chopped the final T to give us
Ze or Zee

If you really want to contribute to the further and final downfall of Z, call it simply
" "

As such, I call this the X spectrum

 

[Exnor]

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That says "ZX". You can't enforce a pronunciation on a letter. As an American English speaker I see that character and say it as "zee".

The way a learned English it was that the letter Z sound like "zeee". But the brits say "zed".

 

[SylverReZ]

It made out of the autism spectrum.

 

[SolidSonicTH]

The way a learned English it was that the letter Z sound like "zeee". But the brits say "zed".

I'm aware but why is this ubiquitously meant to be pronounced as "Zed-Ex Spectrum", even if that's not how you say 'Z' in your dialect of English?

It'd be like saying "if you're talking about F1 then the rubber material on the outside of the wheel hub is to be written as 'tyre', no exceptions" (I dunno, maybe they do expect that).

 

[x65943]

Do you call Peugeot cars "Pe-yoo-jee-ot"?

It has to do with the place of origin

 

[Veho]

Zeddex Spectrum.

 

[x65943]

Edit:

This is how a jizz jack it rabbit thread

 

[Veho]

Jazzed Jackrabbit.

 

[x65943]

Jazzercise jizz on you ribbed-it

 

[hippy dave]

You know that old rock band, Zed Zed Top?

 

[Exnor]

I'm aware but why is this ubiquitously meant to be pronounced as "Zed-Ex Spectrum", even if that's not how you say 'Z' in your dialect of English?

It'd be like saying "if you're talking about F1 then the rubber material on the outside of the wheel hub is to be written as 'tyre', no exceptions" (I dunno, maybe they do expect that).

Like x65943 said, it has to do with the place of origin. The "zed" X spectrum is a British invention so i guess they stuck with that sound.

 

[DinohScene]

Do you call Peugeot cars "Pe-yoo-jee-ot"?

It has to do with the place of origin

I'll simply stick to calling mine the RCZ.
or Iron Lion with a drinking problem.