iowgirl
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Post by iowgirl on Feb 4, 2016 2:05:35 GMT
I can never hear a sportscaster/newscaster mention "Blackhawks" now without hearing "Black Cocks".. We have Blackhawks school mascot, Blackhawk lake, and Blackhawk county in my area - and I giggle every time I hear it now.. Here is a clip from Modern Family that started it for me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EYSL-3sFmE
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Post by anniefb on Feb 4, 2016 2:08:49 GMT
ZZ Top was never known as Zed Zed Top (at least not in Canada). I say 'zee zee' for them as well.
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Post by 950nancy on Feb 4, 2016 2:09:08 GMT
I love to learn new stuff.
Zee vs. zed Zee is the American way of saying the letter z. Zed is the British way. Neither is right or wrong, and nobody is ignorant for pronouncing z the way they do.
The zed pronunciation is older, and it more closely resembles the Greek letter, zeta, from which the English letter is derived. And zed is closer to other languages’ spelling and pronunciation of the letter; for instance, the French say zède, German speakers say zet, and Spanish speakers say zeta. These are points in zed‘s favor.
The U.S. pronunciation probably came about by analogy with the letters bee, cee, dee, gee, and so on. It was standard in American English by the 19th century, and it’s now so deeply engrained that many Americans are unaware of the British pronunciation.
Australian and New Zealand English speakers usually say zed. Canadians say both.
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Post by Zee on Feb 4, 2016 3:06:38 GMT
Are all of you saying my name as Zed Gee? That's NOT RIGHT!
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Post by Zee on Feb 4, 2016 3:07:58 GMT
I can never hear a sportscaster/newscaster mention "Blackhawks" now without hearing "Black Cocks".. We have Blackhawks school mascot, Blackhawk lake, and Blackhawk county in my area - and I giggle every time I hear it now.. Here is a clip from Modern Family that started it for me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EYSL-3sFmEI don't like that. I grew up in an area with lots of Blackhawk place names too.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2016 3:27:27 GMT
Are all of you saying my name as Zed Gee? That's NOT RIGHT! Now I won't be able to get that out of my head!
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Post by bc2ca on Feb 4, 2016 3:35:32 GMT
Are all of you saying my name as Zed Gee? That's NOT RIGHT! We'll give you the ZZ Top exemption.
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Post by mom on Feb 4, 2016 3:40:22 GMT
They were talking on the radio yesterday about a place in Georgia called Martinez and it is pronounced as "Mar-tin-ez", as in the name Martin. I am in So. Cal., so if I see that name I pronounce it "Mar-TI-nez" (emphasis on the the TI). You should hear how Texans mispronounce San Felipe and San Jacinto, among others. You would think with the Spanish speaking population we have here, it wouldn't be so bad. But we hear San FILL-up-pee for the street and there's a community college pronounced San Juh-sin-toe, commonly abbreviated as San Jack. We have a San Jacinto School here and I HATE when people try to say its name and butcher it. San Jack is now my favorite name for it.
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Post by malibou on Feb 4, 2016 3:45:09 GMT
Not a place but a word that I had never heard of before. I purchased an Australian brand of sunglasses called Quay. Someone asked me about them, and I pronounced them as "kway". I was then told that the proper pronunciation of that word is "key." Alrighty then! I was coming to post the same word. I'm in the process of renting a vacation place called Fisherman's Quay. Got schooled. J
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AllieC
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Post by AllieC on Feb 4, 2016 3:51:02 GMT
Are all of you saying my name as Zed Gee? That's NOT RIGHT! I always think of your name in my head as "Zig" so I don't need to worry about either zee or zed
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Post by Zee on Feb 4, 2016 3:53:06 GMT
Are all of you saying my name as Zed Gee? That's NOT RIGHT! I always think of your name in my head as "Zig" so I don't need to worry about either zee or zed Also WRONG! Oh no. What have I done by adopting initials here? I might have to change it to Zee.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2016 4:03:10 GMT
I never knew "quay" was "key" I knew about zed. @z*G I've always pronounced your screen name "Zag." My internal voice makes the apostrophe an "a" for whatever reason. But now it wants to say "zedgie."
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Post by malibou on Feb 4, 2016 4:16:35 GMT
I love this thread.
Z*G to me you are Zee Gee.
I didn't realize so many places used zed. In the UK they don't say the letter H like we do. The say hay ch. Like you are going to say hate but instead of the te you add a ch.
In 2nd grade my nephew wrote a Mother's Day story about how awesome his mother is because she make him fish dicks and fries all the time. He then goes on for several sentences all about how fish dicks are the best and are maybe even tied for the best thing with his mother. He even wrote fish dicks = best = mom. That was 30 years ago. Fish dicks they remain.
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Post by jenis40 on Feb 4, 2016 4:24:55 GMT
Three that I hear frequently from out of town broadcasters: - Helena, capital of Montana, is pronounced Hel-Lin-a not Hel-leen-a - Spokane,WA is pronounced Spo-can, not Spo-cane. - Gonzaga University (located in Spokane) is Gone-zag-a not Gone-zawg-a. It's the Zags not the Zogz. ?
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AllieC
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Post by AllieC on Feb 4, 2016 5:01:35 GMT
I always think of your name in my head as "Zig" so I don't need to worry about either zee or zed Also WRONG! Oh no. What have I done by adopting initials here? I might have to change it to Zee. What is it supposed to be though? Zee Gee? Help us poor non-US types out LOL
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Feb 4, 2016 5:05:58 GMT
My in laws travel a lot. When they went to South Africa they came home telling my kids about zeb-ras (zeb rhyming with the end of celeb). We lived in S. Africa and I always thought it was so funny that they said Zeb-ra, but the grill was a Wee-ber (not a web-er). Once you say them long enough, they stick in your vocabulary. To this day I still catch myself saying Zeb-ra and Wee-ber. The Midwest is great for mispronounced place names named after other, older places, such as KAY-ro (Cairo), That one I know. We played them in high school! Texas has some great pronunciations. My personal favorite here in Houston (and how you spot a newcomer right away) is the pronunciation of Kuykendahl. The correct pronunciation is Kirk-en-doll. Go figure! We have a town named Palestine (PAL-ess-STEEN), another named Iran (I-ra-AN),
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Peamac
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Post by Peamac on Feb 4, 2016 5:17:21 GMT
I had a friend in college whose last name was Svajko, and pronounced "Swy-co" (rhymes with "shy" and "low"). She was born and bred in the South though, not Poland.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2016 5:25:17 GMT
Mantua- Manaway (Native American word) Weber- pronounced WEber not web-er It's a University and a company in Utah; Cream o'WEber and WEber State University.
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Post by AussieMeg on Feb 4, 2016 5:39:19 GMT
I always think of your name in my head as "Zig" so I don't need to worry about either zee or zed Also WRONG! Oh no. What have I done by adopting initials here? I might have to change it to Zee. Oooops, like AllieC , whenever I see your name I say "Zig" in my head! And to be honest, it doesn't matter what you change it to, you'll always be Zig to me!! I didn't realize so many places used zed. In the UK they don't say the letter H like we do. The say hay ch. Like you are going to say hate but instead of the te you add a ch. Aaaargh, I hate that!! I don't think everyone in the UK pronounces it "haitch". Some people here in Australia say "Haitch". My 11yo son does for some reason, and it drives me NUTS!! ETA: I found this on the BBC new website: aitch or haitch?
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Post by scrapsuzy on Feb 4, 2016 5:47:28 GMT
It's Anne Boleyn not Boylen and usually pronounced as Bo-lynn although I agree it does sound like Bow-lynn when it's said with an upper class British accent! I honestly do not know the sound difference between Bo-lynn and Bow-lynn. I say them the exact same way. They were talking on the radio yesterday about a place in Georgia called Martinez and it is pronounced as "Mar-tin-ez", as in the name Martin. I am in So. Cal., so if I see that name I pronounce it "Mar-TI-nez" (emphasis on the the TI). There are other, worse, pronunciations in Georgia! Houston County is pronounced "How-stuhn" not like the city in Texas. There are others that I can't think of right now, except for the one I consider to be the worst: Talliferro County. However you think it should be pronounced, that's not it. We pronounce it "tah-leh-ver" which is how I would say the name Toliver.
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wellway
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Post by wellway on Feb 4, 2016 7:19:14 GMT
Thank to watching Sesame Street as a child I discovered that Americans pronounced Z differently.
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Post by gar on Feb 4, 2016 7:44:27 GMT
Also WRONG! Oh no. What have I done by adopting initials here? I might have to change it to Zee. Oooops, like AllieC , whenever I see your name I say "Zig" in my head! And to be honest, it doesn't matter what you change it to, you'll always be Zig to me!! I didn't realize so many places used zed. In the UK they don't say the letter H like we do. The say hay ch. Like you are going to say hate but instead of the te you add a ch. Aaaargh, I hate that!! I don't think everyone in the UK pronounces it "haitch". Some people here in Australia say "Haitch". My 11yo son does for some reason, and it drives me NUTS!! ETA: I found this on the BBC new website: aitch or haitch? You're Zig to me too for some reason Zee And you're right AussieMeg - I hate the sound of haitch, we definitely say 'aitch although I do hear some people say it with the h. I always think it sounds weird
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Post by miominmio on Feb 4, 2016 8:58:05 GMT
If that was the case, Deutschland would make more sense in English than Germany. It's a Land, after all, like England, Ireland, Scotland, Finland... I've wondered about that too. Not about Spain in particular, mainly Germany. How did it get to be Germany? Does that spring from an old French-based Norman name that was carried to England? I think I smell an intense Google session coming on! The name was used in Roman times, to describe the tribes living in what is present day Germany.
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Post by miominmio on Feb 4, 2016 9:01:16 GMT
So you all go through those alphabet books with your children and come to the end and are all like "Zed is for Zebbra" My world has been rocked to its core. I actually knew about the zebbras, thanks to David Attenborough's fabulous narration of various nature documentaries, but ZED??? No, when we come to the end of the book, it's Å for "ål"
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Post by miominmio on Feb 4, 2016 9:04:03 GMT
I always think of your name in my head as "Zig" so I don't need to worry about either zee or zed Also WRONG! Oh no. What have I done by adopting initials here? I might have to change it to Zee. I always read it as "Zug" (train in German).
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wellway
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Post by wellway on Feb 4, 2016 9:39:02 GMT
Another one reading Z*G wrong, I read it as ZOG because * kinda looks like an O.
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Post by gar on Feb 4, 2016 9:45:14 GMT
Another one reading Z*G wrong, I read it as ZOG because * kinda looks like an O. Who would have thought there could be so many variations!
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Post by gsquaredmom on Feb 4, 2016 11:41:18 GMT
My sister said Pa hone icks for awhile before I figured out she meant Phoenix. Like Arizona Phoenix.
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purplebee
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Post by purplebee on Feb 4, 2016 12:00:49 GMT
Are all of you saying my name as Zed Gee? That's NOT RIGHT! Uh oh....another "Zag" sayer here. But I do think "Zedgee" has a nice ring to it! Zee Gee (ha ha autocorrect wants you to be squeegee!) I'll try to do better!
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Post by peasapie on Feb 4, 2016 12:10:01 GMT
This reminds me of the time my son returned from study abroad in London. He visited me at school, and my students asked him to "Speak English" to them. He had them at "al-u-min-e-um. " Right. And shedjewel
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