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As a recently arrived Brit at Bell Labs in Naperville in the early 1980s I was presenting code in my first US code review. The code was typical K+R C with singl
by dave333 5y ago
As a recently arrived Brit at Bell Labs in Naperville in the early 1980s I was presenting code in my first US code review. The code was typical K+R C with single character variable names x, y, and z amongst others. All seemed to be going well until near the end when somebody asked what I meant by the variable "zed."
- pbourke 5y agoIn the 90’s I worked at a Canadian company that developed a CNC machining training simulator. We produced some professionally narrated training videos for a new release of the software and sent them off to the publisher. A few days later our US publisher got in touch to have us re-record all mentions of the “zed axis” as “zee axis”.
- kitten_mittens_ 5y agoMy first introduction to Canadian English being slightly different than American was a physics professor my sophomore year who in the first lecture kept saying zed. I thought it was a tic. Later I moved to Germany, I finally figured out that zed was a Commonwealth English thing from my Canadian coworkers. None of my German coworkers could understand me when I said zee, because it sounds like "c", I guess. So I'd say tset (the German zed equivalent).
- 123pie123 5y agobeing from the UK, I have used either zee or zed all my life