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Pronouncing zed as "zee" is particularly annoying (as in "Gen Z").
by rwmj 2y ago
Pronouncing zed as "zee" is particularly annoying (as in "Gen Z").
- hermitcrab 2y agoI find Valley speak, where people say 'like' every third word, infuriating.
- rad_gruchalski 2y ago“Literally”!
- 1659447091 2y agoanytime I hear someone use "zed" for Z(ee) the next thing I hear in my head is "Zed's dead, baby"[0] Pulp Fiction and I just can't help but chuckle [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E3aAvhUucI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E3aAvhUucI
- dave333 2y agoI emigrated from the UK to USA in 1980 and my first code review at Bell Labs I spent about 30 mins explaining my code and then asked if there were any final questions and someone hesitantly asked, "What is this variable 'zed' you keep talking about?"
- dave333 2y agoHaving posted the above a few days ago, last night I (originally from the UK) was in the car with my wife (US born and bred) following and reciting map directions on my phone like "0.8 miles left on San Antonio" which I say as UK standard "nought point eight miles left on San Antonio." After a while she asks "what is nought?" Here we just say "point 8 miles" or "zero point eight miles." We've only been married 42 years and are still learning each other's language:-)
- 1659447091 2y agoSome time ago a few people from the UK kept calling/referring to someone as a nonce. It took me awhile to say something, but I finally asked because I simply couldn't understand or wrap my head around why they kept referring to this person as a single use random number (mostly for authentication in my case). It was so confusing.
- rwmj 2y agoI used to work for a networking start-up and when we were in the US trying - without success - to sell the company we practised over and over saying "roWter" for "router" (English pronunciation like "rooter").
- wcarss 2y agoAs a Canadian I read that as "rOATer" for a moment, because the word row rhyming with ow is quite uncommon here -- the row I know is in a boating or a data context.
- dfawcus 2y agoAs a Brit, so did I. That said, a "rotor" would be pronounced as "rOATer" and has a completely different meaning. isn't English fun !
- ninalanyon 2y agoYou never have a row with anyone?
- wisemang 2y agoAs a Canadian, obviously not. (For real though we don’t use that word for argument or whatever.)
- BrandoElFollito 2y agoFunny, I just realised that I say "rooter" in French (because route ("roote") means way, like in English), but I say "rAWter" in English
- ninalanyon 2y agoThere are two words with the same spelling but separate pronunciations in British English: Router (rooter) the thing that routes packets in a newtwork Router (rowter) a machine tool that cuts grooves, etc., in wood or metal.
- stevekemp 2y agoThe one that gets me the most is English people suddenly saying "fall" instead of "autumn".
- mr_toad 2y agoThe weirdest one to me is the English suddenly referring to police as "feds". https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/37256/police-in-general-as-feds#37594 https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/37256/police-in-... It's not like they didn't already have dozens of slang terms for the police.
- dfawcus 2y agoIt is a traditional one which fell out of fashion. https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/learn-about/weather/seasons/autumn/autumn-facts https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/learn-about/weather/seasons... https://twominenglish.com/autumn-vs-fall/ https://twominenglish.com/autumn-vs-fall/ Now if we start saying "diaper" again instead of "nappy", you can start to worry.
- PaulRobinson 2y agoThere was a cartoon in Private Eye a couple of weeks ago that suggested the reason why Millenials and Gen Z could never be reconciled is that they can't agree whether it's pronounced "Generation Zed", or "Generation Zee", as the younger generation themselves would call it.